Shawl. Net background with embroidered floral motifs around edges. Note asymmetry of design: 2 rounded corners, 2 pointed corners; one rounded corner has large additional embroidered motif; one pointed corner has embroidered initials “VC” or “UC”.
Donor:
(anonymous)
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India, fide Kaethe Kliot, owner, Lacis.
Collector:
Mrs. William Fitzhugh Sr.
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes and 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
October 13, 1985
Context of use:
Shawl. Accession materials state “possibly wedding veil”. c1900. “Hand embroidered in India for English market in 1860s, capelet or veil”Fide:Kaethe Kliot, owner Lacis, 2001.