Blue wool with cream and red pinstripes and two borders; one border is narrow - yellow, green, cream, and red geometric (overshot) stripe; the other border is wide - composed of indigo blue stripes, two red overshot pattern stripes, bands of plain red, yellow cream stripes and center stripe of same narrow stripe previously mentioned.
shawls
wool (hair)
Shawl
Shawl
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
38 x 28 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.6716
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