1840-1860
GUSN-11457
Square shawl with a red center and a wide inner paisley patterned border with large cones at the corners in shades of green, blue and purple. The narrow inner border has leaf pattern in the same palette. Red fringe on two ends.
shawls
jacquard
weaving
wool (textile)
paisley
Shawl
Wool
Jacquard
Woven
Paisley
Shawl
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Scotland
56 x 56.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.679
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