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Cream wool knitted shawl. The shawl is rectangular with rounded corners and is very loosely knitted. There is a wide border around the outside that is knitted with a loose interconnected diamond pattern and a scalloped edge. The center rectangle is of a tighter weave with an interconnected diamond pattern.
shawls
wool (textile)
Shawl
"Sholder Shall White / knitted" (Handwritten not in pencil on a sticker attached to a piece of newspaper.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P930
Unknown
45 11/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1350
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