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Shawl

Object/Artifact

Large triangular shawl, machine made black lace. Thin and fine. Needlerun outlines and applied picots. Design of lush groups of grasses, ferns and cosmos (?) with naturalistic group of exotic leaves flopping into bottom corner.

G2003.025

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1850 - 1870

User Age: Adult Gender: Female

Shawl

Black

lace

Ferns

Leaves

grasses

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