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| Collection | Crafts Study Centre | |
| Weaver | Elizabeth Peacock | |
| Description | Hand-woven shawl, made from vegetable-dyed Indian cotton and eri silk, with a fringe and deep striped borders. The central panel has a diagonal accent. | |
| Id Number Current Accession | T.74.161 | |
| Location Creation Site | Weavers, Clayton, Sussex, UK | |
| Subject | woven textiles, shawl, pattern | |
| Measurements | 170.8 x 109.2 centimetres | |
| Weave | plain | |
| Material | Indian cotton | |
| Other Materials | eri silk | |
| Dye | cutch, cochineal, iron, chrome | |
| History | One of two shawls commissioned by King Feisal. | |
| Literary Source | McLeod, E. | |
| Relation Exhibition | Exhibit number 27 in ´Weaving by Elizabeth Peacock´, Crafts Study Centre, Bath, 1978 | |
| Rights Owner | Managed by the Crafts Study Centre. | |
| Style Period Period | 1920s | |
| Technique | hand-dyeing and -weaving | |
| Process | Warp: Indian cotton. Weft inlay: eri silk and cotton. Fawn, dyed with cutch; brown, dyed with cutch and mordanted with chrome; black, dyed with cochineal and mordanted with iron; grey-green, dyed with cutch and mordanted with iron; purple, dyed with cochineal and mordanted with chrome. | |
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