Long rectangular shaped black silk crepe shawl with stenciled silver floral designs at each end. There are three small flowers stenciled evenly in the center of the shawl. The silver paint bled through the thin crepe so both sides of the shawl are identical.
shawls
silk (fiber)
paint (coating)
Shawl
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P944
Unknown
18 9/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1364
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