MOTIFS:
Trailing floral motifs encorporating pomergranates, fern, oak and holly leaves with various flowers, shaped borders formed by leaf motifs, various decorative filling stitches. Hexagonal mesh ground of varying sizes.

TECHNIQUES:
Continuous Bobbin lace. The solid areas of the design are worked in cloth stich, using doubled threads on the worker bobbins. There is a single heavy grimp outling thread. The ground is standard tulle mesh, as in Cook & Stott, p. 14, which has also been uses on a smaller scale as a filling stitch in selected areas. Honeycomb mesh (Cook & Stott, p. 42) has been used as the main filling stitch in other areas, with an interesting variation. The shawl was made in sections and joined, approx every 15cm.

H4698 Shawl, Buckinghamshire lace, bobbin made, silk, England, c. 1700

Pieces of material, worn as coverings for the shoulders, head, etc., chiefly by women, in place of coat or hat, sometimes as a decoration.

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18th century shawl from England

Object No. H4698

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