Annette Noble & Pearl Cohan. Love and Shawl-straps. New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894.
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Annette Noble & Pearl Cohan. Love and Shawl-straps. New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894.
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That’s intriguing… I wonder what shawl straps are…
What kestrel @1 said.
My Beloved and Darling Wife has been knitting for about 50 years now, and she doesn’t know either.
fusilier, who STILL doesn’t have a sweater! (Knitters know….)
James 2:24
Shawl-straps are straps used to bind a shawl into a bundle, and often incorporate a handle for carrying. The thing in the picture is a shawl with shawl-straps attached.
Note, it appears that shawls were often used as simple travelling bags. I.e. you could carry extra clothes or a sheaf of loose papers bound in a shawl with shawl-straps while travelling. When you got to your destination you would not be lumbered with a suitcase, and would still have a shawl to keep you warm. Louisa May Alcott wrote a travel book called Shaw-straps.
@flex: thank you! I kept coming back to this thread hoping someone had the answer. Nice to know!
“… these are the voyages of the shawlstrap Enterprise, its five-year mission…”
@kestrel #5, no real credit goes to me. I looked it up in my usual sources (old dictionaries (yes, print!)), and then asked my wife (who’s a knitter). She didn’t know, but she used her google-fu and got the answer pretty quickly.
All I did was transfer that information, mainly because you asked, I was curious myself, and I liked the illustration of it above. (And then I miss-typed the title of Alcott’s book. It’s really Shawl-straps. It’s not a book about George Bernard Shaw’s bondage fetish.)