Kirking shawl
about 1850
Medium/Technique1/2 Z twill ground patterned with supplementary discontinuous and continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave, clipped; Warp: cotton; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool.
DimensionsHeight x width: 238.8 × 154.9 cm (94 × 61 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1066
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ProvenanceOctober, 1984, sold by Marcy Jacobs, 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 (2001.157.120); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
About 1820
about 1965
about 1865
about 1875
about 1875
about 1860
