scarf
- Museum number
- 2019,8005.10
- Description
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Woman's head scarf, hand woven cream-coloured linen incorporating white stripes, fringed hems, with broad band of supplementary weft decoration at each end with geometric moitfs in pale yellow, red, blue and green thread divided by horizontal stripes in red and white, with twisted red, yellow and green thead. At each edge of this broad band the twisted tri-colour thread passes through pulled thread work.
- Production date
- 1950-1990
- Dimensions
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Length: 162 centimetres
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Width: 41 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2019
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by donor in Albania between the 1950s and 2011.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2019,8005.10