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Long sheer black shawl. There is a machine stitched hem on both ends and at the bottom edge. Across the top is a selvage edge. Across the middle third of the top the selvage is folded over and tightly sewn to create a gathered area across the shoulders.
Long sheer black shawl. There is a machine stitched hem on both ends and at the bottom edge. Across the top is a selvage edge. Across the middle third of the top the selvage is folded over and tightly sewn to create a gathered area across the shoulders.
Long sheer black shawl. There is a machine stitched hem on both ends and at the bottom edge. Across the top is a selvage edge. Across the middle third of the top the selvage is folded over and tightly sewn to create a gathered area across the shoulders.
shawls
silk (textile)
Shawl
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P877
Unknown
21 11/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1297
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