"London Eyre Shawl"

 

(There may have been two shawls used in the film, as this one looks considerably smaller than the one in the photos below.)

The London Eyre Shawl free pattern by Donna Strom recreates the shawl worn by Mia Wasikowska as the title character in "Jane Eyre" (2011).  Strom notes,

The London Eyre Shawl pattern was created and named solely by me as a replication/copy of a shawl which appears briefly in the 2011 Focus Features film production of "Jane Eyre" -- costume design by Michael O'Connor. According to Focus Features the original shawl was free-knitted by the owner of a company near London, England which produces custom pieces for period films. The name of the pattern is my way of paying tribute to the talented original knitter -- whose name is not known to me. To the best of my knowledge, no written pattern exists for the original shawl.

Note that Charlotte Brontë's novel was published in 1847, though is set somewhat earlier. Most film adaptations tend to use fashions of the 1840s for the main part of the story.

Short rows contribute to much of the shaping in this shawl.

Four muffatees from Workwoman's Guide, 1840

Four muffatee patterns from A Workwoman's Guide (2d. ed., 1840), p.262; illustrations on pl.21. Note that the third muffatee is clearly not shown in Fig.26 (which is of a sock, the "Child's Long Sock" from p.257), but presumably Fig.46.

Here are four muffatee patterns from A Workwoman's Guide. The first is worked in three rows of knit stitch and three rows of purl ("turn stitch"). The illustration clearly shows an edging, though none is given in the pattern; you could work a selvage as you knit, or add a border afterwards.

The second is in garter stitch ("plain knitting") -- 28 ridges ("ribs") in the original, though of course this should be adjusted to suit the wool and the wearer. This illustration also clearly shows an edging in addition to the fringe added at the end.

The third muffatee -- "extremely pretty"! -- is worked in a two-color rib, with a 3-stitch border in garter stitch in one color, worked as you go. Note that two-color rib will produce vertical stripes, while the illustration appears to show horizontal ones.

The fourth muffatee is worked in alternate sections of garter st and double knitting, though the sequence given is perhaps not as clear to the modern knitter as might be desired.