Rectangular Cashmere Shawl with a Black Field and Decorated with a Multicoloured Pattern of Floral Motifs
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Palm shawl of wool, woven in a rectangular model with an oval black mirror with dark palette. Multicoloured pattern, among others in dark red. The central pattern is symmetrically built with a long vertical and a short horizontal axis. At the ends stand five elongated compartments ending at the bottom in a flat pointed arch, over which long thin botas stand, with open volutes, which are additionally worked out with split stems to which various palmette flowers and Kashmir botas grow. On the horizontal axis stands, across, a shell motif, above which a hilltop of a wave band running to the corners, on which rosettes stand. The side border has a wavy red vine and black snowball flowers on stems, alternately originating inwards and outwards.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description