Shawl (fragment) of orange and reds with blues, grey, white, and black cashmere tapestry woven in all-over floral vine and paisley pattern
- Title
- Shawl (fragment) of orange and reds with blues, grey, white, and black cashmere tapestry woven in all-over floral vine and paisley pattern
- LC Subject
- accessories (object genre)
- Donor
- Fritchoff, Alma C.
- Description
- Shawl (fragment) of mostly orange and reds with blues, grey, white, and black cashmere tapestry woven in a very detailed all-over design of diagonal floral vines (vines have the characteristic rigid-branch look) and paisley pattern; two corners have medallions of geometric floral patterns (one is mostly red, the other mostly off-white); one end has a stitched on border of floral, geometric pattern.
- Motif
- Paisley Floral Decorative
- Work Type
- shawls
- Location
- Varanasi >> Vārānasi >> Uttar Pradesh >> India
- Date
- 1801/1900
- Identifier
- 1933.002.017
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Cashmere
- Technique
- Double interlock tapestry twill weave Hand-woven Extremely detailed
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Record says this design is in the
