Shawl

MOA: University of British Columbia

3080/43

Long shawl or scarf. Textile made of thin cotton, coloured in horizontal stripes of red, yellow, green, blue and tan. Tan leaf shapes are embroidered across the surface. Each end has heavy embroidery in similar colours, showing a pattern of diamond shapes. Long multicoloured fringe emerges from both ends.


  • Type of Item shawl
  • Culture Bhutanese
  • Material cotton fibre, silk fibre
  • Measurements height 30.0 cm, width 260.0 cm (overall)

  • Previous Owner Ronald Klein
  • Received from Ronald Klein

  • Made in Bhutan

  • Collection Date during 2005
  • Ownership Date before September 13, 2014
  • Acquisition Date on September 13, 2014

  • Item Classes textiles
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3080/0043