Woman's Cotton Shawl

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Woman's Cotton Shawl

Woman's Cotton Shawl

Name/Title

Woman's Cotton Shawl

Entry/Object ID

CW 3319

Description

Shawl. Woman's shawl; fine white cotton lawn; gathered lace edge on four sides; floral embroidery in two corners; one corner broadly rounded; scalloped lawn overlays lace at edges. Parallelogram-shaped shawl was designed to be folded over with one corner showing above the other to produce a two-layer triangular shawl. Dimensions: 54-inches wide center back of triangular shawl; 46-inch sides; 3 1/2-inch lace band; ten-inch corner embroidered design. Fair condition - staining. No date given. Transcribed from Original Accession Record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

unknown

Dimensions

Height

54 in

Width

54 in

Length

46 in

Dimension Notes

Details: Dimensions: 54-inches wide center back of triangular shawl; 46-inch sides; 3 1/2-inch lace band; ten-inch corner embroidered design.

Material

Lawn; lace