A 'Paisley' shawl woven with a central palmette at either end, with pairs of cones above flanking a small black centre woven with an indistinct signature in white, with white canvas tag on reverse printed 34216, inscribed 1183.naII--160 x 345cm., 1860-5; a shawl of fine ivory wool, printed with a red ground border of cones, the field printed with burgundy cones, shot with silk ribbons--330 x 170cm., 1855-60, and a shawl of fawn wool gauze, woven with a striped brown border, 1850s

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A 'Paisley' shawl woven with a central palmette at either end, with pairs of cones above flanking a small black centre woven with an indistinct signature in white, with white canvas tag on reverse printed 34216, inscribed 1183.naII--160 x 345cm., 1860-5; a shawl of fine ivory wool, printed with a red ground border of cones, the field printed with burgundy cones, shot with silk ribbons--330 x 170cm., 1855-60, and a shawl of fawn wool gauze, woven with a striped brown border, 1850s

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