Long Stole
1795-1810
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave foundation; embroidered with cotton thread in stem and satin stitches and French knots
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 295.9 × 94 cm (116 1/2 × 37 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Belle M. Borland Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In addition to fine cashmere wool shawls, other materials were used to create shawls and stoles inspired by the elegant Kashmir shawl. Here, ethereal Indian muslin is embroidered with roses that sway like their Kashmir buta (paisley) counterparts.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
