Of rectangular form, pale green wool printed with polychrome sprig devices within an inner border of festooned "lancet window" motif and an outer border of segmented paisley devices. There is self fringe at the ends.
shawls
printing (process)
wool (textile)
Shawl
Shawl
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
India
68 x 62 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1749
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