LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2026
  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2026
Collections

Woman's Shawlcirca 1810

Not on view
Horizontal cream-colored textile with fringed short ends and a framing border of dark charcoal and red-pink oval motifs on all four sides
Museum display of an early 19th-century white muslin empire-waist dress with short puff sleeves and embroidered train, worn on a white mannequin with bonnet, draped with a cream and dark brown paisley-patterned shawl with fringe, shown in profile against a dark background.
Museum mannequin dressed in early 19th-century white muslin Empire-style gown with long train, draped cream shawl with dark paisley-patterned border and fringe, and white ruffled cap headdress, photographed against a dark background.
Textile fragment with cream ground, featuring large boteh (paisley) forms densely filled with red and dark green floral rosettes, bordered by a repeating flower and vine band; fringe visible at lower edge.
Textile fragment with a horizontal band of large boteh (paisley) forms densely filled with small floral motifs in teal, crimson, and blue on a cream ground, bordered above and below by narrower floral vine bands.
Woven textile fragment with a cream ground, featuring a row of large boteh (paisley) forms densely filled with pink, red, and blue-green floral motifs, bordered above and below by narrow floral bands.
Title
Woman's Shawl
Place Made
India, Kashmir, for the Western market
Date Made
circa 1810
Medium
Goat-fleece underdown (cashmere wool) twill with double-interlocking tapestry-weave patterning
Dimensions
49 1/2 × 125 in. (125.73 × 317.5 cm)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Collection
Accession Number
M.45.3.150
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.
  • Örmen, Catherine. L'Art de la Mode. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2015.
  • Edwards, Lydia. How to Read a Dress: a Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Related Unframed

New Acquisition: Robert Henri’s "Spanish Dancer - Sevillana"
New Acquisition: Robert Henri’s "Spanish Dancer - Sevillana"
  • November 7, 2022
  • Leah Lehmbeck
At Home with Art—Clarissa Esguerra
At Home with Art—Clarissa Esguerra
  • March 17, 2021
  • Clarissa Esguerra