Shawl
about 1875
Object PlaceUSA
Medium/TechniqueJacquard woven with 1/2 Z twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 2/1 Z twill, clipped; Warp: wool; main weft: wool: pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 184.2 × 179.1 cm (72 1/2 × 70 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1078
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCostumes
Collections
ProvenanceApril 1985, sold by Harriet Bridges, Harvard, 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 (2001.157.135); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1875
about 1875
about 1875
about 1875
about 1875
about 1865
1835–45
1805-1810
about 1835
about 1860
about 1830