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Shawl
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Shawl

about 1865
Medium/Technique1/3 S twill patterned with supplementary discontinuous and continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave: warp: wool; main weft: wool; pattern wefts: wool and silk
DimensionsHeight x width: 309.9 × 157.5 cm (122 × 62 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1073
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ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceFebruary, 1985, 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 (2001.157.128); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)