Turnover shawl
about 1875
Medium/TechniqueWool 2/2 S twill ground, embroidered and with attached jacquard-woven border of 1/2 Z twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 2/1 Z twill, clipped; Warps: silk plied with wool; main weft: cotton; patterning weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 166.4 × 152.4 cm (65 1/2 × 60 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1035
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about 1860
about 1875
1805-1810
probably 1820–30
about 1875
about 1875
about 1865