Ivory silk and net shawl with floral decoration. The ends of the shawl are cut at opposing angles, creating a trapezoid shape. Silk threads are woven into the net base to create the floral pattern on the shawl. The shawl has scalloped sides and ends created by circular flowered. The bottom edge has two rows of circular flowers. The center panel has twenty-seven parallel rows of smaller flowers with leaves.
shawls
silk (fiber)
net (textile)
Shawl
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P884
Unknown
27 6/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1304
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