Shawl
about 1800
Medium/Technique1/3 S twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 S twill, clipped; Warp: silk?; main weft: wool; pattern wefts: wool and silk
DimensionsHeight x width: 149.9 × 172.7 cm (59 × 68 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1047
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ProvenanceJanuary, 1984. Sold by Marcy Jabobs, 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 (2001.157.97); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1860
about 1850
probably 1820–30
about 1840
1845-1850
about 1830
about 1850
about 1860
about 1849, maybe earlier
second quarter of 19th century
about 1848