Shawl

Museum number:
7-10193
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070010193
Alternate number:
35s (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4092
Description:
From Cat Card: Stole, claret red silk, self fringe plied z twist 26cm at each end. 67cm gold supp weft design - widely spaced stripes, stripe of dense design, stripes but with flowers added (on one end emphasized by using thicker weft ground), then 12.5cm large repeated motif (tree of life or paisley like), then 5.5cm dense geometric pattern. Center is weft ikat with yellow, green, blue, black. A few darns in the ikat area - may be original. Looks like Thai silk. c1925. Cat Card Notes indicate shawl may be from Thailand? possibly Indonesia? or constructed from Asian materials?
Donor:
(anonymous)
Collection place:
Europe
Culture or time period:
European
Materials:
Silk
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
Accession date:
October 13, 1985
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
Whole— width 71 centimeters, Whole— length 304 centimeters, and Whole— length 26 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 7-10193, described as From Cat Card: Stole, claret red silk, self fringe plied z twist 26cm at each end. 67cm gold supp weft design - widely spaced stripes, stripe of dense design, stripes but with flowers added (on one end emphasized by using thicker weft ground), then 12.5cm large repeated motif (tree of life or paisley like), then 5.5cm dense geometric pattern. Center is weft ikat with yellow, green, blue, black. A few darns in the ikat area - may be original. Looks like Thai silk. c1925. Cat Card Notes indicate shawl may be from Thailand? possibly Indonesia? or constructed from Asian materials?

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