Shawl
about 1850
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 S twill; Pattern: 1/3 S twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 S twill, clipped; Warp: silk, resist-dyed; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 182.9 × 177.8 cm (72 × 70 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1010
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Not on viewClassificationsCostumes
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ProvenanceNovember 1982, sold by Marcy Jacobs, Marblehead, MA, to Martha Bayles Boyd (b.1929-d.2010), Reston, Virginia; 2001, given by Martha Bayles Boyd, Reston, Virginia, to the American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA (2001.157.44); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1860
about 1860
about 1855
about 1848
about 1850
about 1840
1845-1850
second quarter of 19th century
probably 1820–30
about 1820