Shawl
about 1875
Object PlaceGreat Britain, United Kingdom
Medium/TechniqueField: 1/3 Z twill ground; pattern: plain weave ground with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave, clipped; Warp: silk plied with wool; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool.
DimensionsHeight x width: 322.6 × 160 cm (127 × 63 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1067
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ProvenanceOctober, 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 (2001.157.121); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)