Shawl
about 1875
Medium/TechniqueJacquard woven with 2/1 Z twill center and patterned area of plain weave patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave, clipped; Warps: silk plied wool, resist dyed; main weft: wool; patterning wefts: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 325.1 × 161.3 cm (128 × 63 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1064
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ProvenanceAugust, 1984, sold by Jim Couover, Scituate, 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 (2001.157.118); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1875
about 1860
about 1860
about 1860
about 1860
about 1865
about 1875
about 1840
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