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Turnover shawl
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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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ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceNovember 1983, sold by Marcy Jacob, 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 (2001.157.77); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)