Woven woollen shawl, made by David Speirs & Co., Paisley, 1862 Woven woollen shawl with a design repeat that fills a quarter of the shawl. Round all the four sides, within the two decorated shallow end panels, runs a stylised meander with four flowerheads haloed by rings reserved in the filling pattern. At each corner of the main design, a palmette fans out from an arc woven with the name 'D Speirs & Co' (reserved on two corners). Three huge arches containing elongated sinuous pines, their outlines spouting little flowers, are set against an elaborately detailed variety of filling patterns. The centre sides have less high arches. At the centre the points of the central end arches meet to flow out into gothic foliate ornament to either side. No plain ground is to be seen except in the brightly coloured harlequin end pieces.