Shawl
about 1840
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueField; 2/2 Z twill; Borders: 1/3 Z twill with supplementary discontinuous and continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; Warp: silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 334 × 149.2 cm (131 1/2 × 58 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.988
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ProvenanceDecember 22, 1990, sold by Frank Ames, New York, NY, to Martha Bayles Boyd. (b.1929-d.2010), Reston, Virginia; 2001, gift of Martha Bayles Boyd, Reston, Virginia, to the American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA (2001.157.17); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)