The production of luxury accessories such as the fashionable stoles of the early 19^th Century was relatively widespread over a number of centres in Britain and abroad, with common influences and the copying of designs often making attribution difficult. This stole is very similar in style to that seen as a Related Item which is thought to have been woven in the Spitalfields district of London, an area famed for its silk weaving industry. The border, less pronounced than that of the black stole, places formulaic flowers above and within a trompe l’œil effect of intertwining ribbon.