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Shawl
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Shawl

about 1875
Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 Z twill; Pattern: 1/3 Z twill ground with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; Main warp: silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: cotton?; main warp: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 186.7 × 177.8 cm (73 1/2 × 70 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.993
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ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceMarch 1982, sold by Marcy Jacobs, Marblehead, MA, 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 (2001.157.24); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)