A floral design screen-printed silk crepe shawl, from H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc. Made from an all silk, medium weight crepe fabric; ornamented with a screen-printed design engineered to display best across a diagonally folded shawl; of a large floral motif, developed in black on a white ground with 2 band borders outlining the shawl, the inner band red and the outer band black. Manufacturer's numbers: fabric quality: #4571; pattern: # 5215; color: #15. One of a group of five screen-printed silk crepe shawls given by the Mallinson firm in 1928 to illustrate their early use of this new printing technique in industrial production.