Shawl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a characteristic shawl textile of the 1840s with a good combination of weaving techniques, including monochrome patterning in the ground paired with stripes that look like ribbons applied to the borders. The polychrome fringe picks up the colors used in the textile, showing fine attention to detail.

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art