Shawl

Unknown

1840–49 · silk · Costume Institute

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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1840–49

Medium

silk

Culture

probably American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Vincente Minetti, 1972