Shawl border, Medium: silk Technique: twill weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade) Label: Woven and embroidered silk, Fragment of a shawl border with an ivory colored field and a deep boder of boteh or paisley forms filled with tiny floral forms. Flanked top and bottom with a narrow band with a repeating design of carnations, alternating frontal and profile view. Above, a smaller row of paisleys is adjacent to the field. In shades of red and blue., France, early 19th century, woven textiles, Shawl border