Shawl
Towler, Campin & Cie
(English, 1846–1851)
about 1850
Object PlaceGreat Britain, United Kingdom
Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 Z twill; pattern: 1/3 Z twill ground patterned with continuous supplementary patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill; Warp: silk; main weft: wool; pattern wefts: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 152.4 × 146.1 cm (60 × 57 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1022
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ProvenanceJuly, 1983. Sold by Harriet Bridges, Harvard, 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 (2001.157.61); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1850
about 1850
about 1850
about 1860
1850s