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Long rectangular green net shawl embroidered with gold metallic thread. Edges of shawl have a double line of gold thread as a border. Edges of the green net are folded over and sewn into the gold thread border to create a finished edge. At both ends of the shawl, there is an identical design done in gold metallic thread. The design consists of a wavy rectangle with approximately ten branch and leaf designs running through it.
shawls
net (textile)
thread
Shawl
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P925
Unknown
23 4/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1345
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