Kerchief or small shawl, square, red with black printed design Kerchief made of thin fine cotton blotch printed red, with block printed border of dark red and black plume and foliage scrolls. Opposite corners have a large ferny spray executed in black. The edges are unhemmed, and narrow bits of undyed edges reveal that the ground color was not dyed — ie not Turkey red. There is no selvage, so one suspects that perhaps the edges had been fringed and were cut off recently to neaten up what probably was a Mess. If this is the way it has been for ages, never hemmed, then the fraying was minimal because the cut ends look fairly fresh. See No. 2007.07- obvious relationship. Maybe this is Indian. Maybe it is not 19th century.