Shawl
about 1830
Medium/Technique1/3 Z twill with supplementary discontinuous and continuous patterning wefts, clipped and tied in plain weave; warp: silk; main weft: wool; patterning wefts: wool.
DimensionsHeight x width: 213.4 × 130.8 cm (84 × 51 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1040
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ProvenanceDecember, 1983. Sold by Jim Bakker, Littleton, 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 (2001.157.85); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
probably 1820–30
mid-19th century
about 1825
about 1830
about 1820
about 1830
about 1875
about 1850
about 1820
1805-1810