Shawl
about 1840
Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 Z twill; Pattern: plain weave ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; Warp: silk; main weft: wool: pattern weft: wool and silk
DimensionsHeight x width: 162.6 × 156.2 cm (64 × 61 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1044
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ProvenanceDecember, 1983. Sold by Jim Bakker, Littletown, 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 (2001.157.89); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1850
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about 1850
about 1850
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