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Long, wide cream silk shawl. There are two parallel horizontal stripes of a thick cream weave on both the top and bottom. There are two vertical parallel stripes done in a thick weave with a shiny cream thread on both ends of the shawl. Both ends are folded over to create a thick hem and the seam has a decorative line of holes on each end.
shawls
silk (textile)
Shawl
"No. 1223 750 Dennison MFG Co." (Rectangular price tag with teh bottom two corners cut off. It has a black decorative border with a black vine motif on the inside of the border.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P880
Unknown
40 9/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1300
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