Description
Two Azute or Assyut shawls, 1920’s, the first in black, with the addition of silver metal strips, with three large central diamonds of slightly different sizes, all designed with crosshatched lines, at each end, three bands of triangles, approx. 94 inches or 239cm by 26 inches or 64cm; a cream azute shawl, featuring a very large central diamond, a smaller diamond to each side, and deep bands of figures and trees at each end, the metal strips with a gold sheen, small motifs filling the remaining net before two bands of triangles at each end, approx. 90 by 27 inches or 68cm by 128cm (2)
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Two Azute or Assyut shawls, 1920’s, the first in black, with the addition of silver metal strips, with three large central diamonds of slightly different sizes, all designed with crosshatched lines, at each end, three bands of triangles, approx. 94 inches or 239cm by 26 inches or 64cm; a cream azute shawl, featuring a very large central diamond, a smaller diamond to each side, and deep bands of figures and trees at each end, the metal strips with a gold sheen, small motifs filling the remaining net before two bands of triangles at each end, approx. 90 by 27 inches or 68cm by 128cm (2)
