A silk "zebra" shawl woven with narrow bands of stylised flowerheads alternating with roundels and crosses, mainly in shades of raspberry red, green, blue and ivory--66 x 134in. (165 x 335cm.), late 1850s, Clabburn, Sons & Crisp, Norwich

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A silk "zebra" shawl woven with narrow bands of stylised flowerheads alternating with roundels and crosses, mainly in shades of raspberry red, green, blue and ivory--66 x 134in. (165 x 335cm.), late 1850s, Clabburn, Sons & Crisp, Norwich
Literature
See "The Norwich Shawl", Pamela Clabburn, 1995, Norwich, number 55, p. 93 for another shawl woven with the same pattern.

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