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Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Mezzaro in a design of small scale serpentine branches on a white ground. Branches surrounded by and part of a floral design worked in minute black dots. Double floral border.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, from the textile collection of Mrs. Abram Stevens Hewitt
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1800–1850
- Accession Number
- 1931-4-10
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- printed, dyed & painted textiles
- Mezzaro (shawl or headcovering)
- Medium
- Medium: cotton Technique: block printed
- Dimensions
- H x W: 246.8 x 272 cm (97 3/16 x 107 1/16 in.)
- made in
- Genoa, Italy
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- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1931-4-10
- Usage
- Not determined
