Shawl
about 1820
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/Technique1/3 Z twill ground patterned with supplementary discontinuous and clipped continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave; Warp: silk; main weft: wool; patterning wefts: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 162.6 × 171.5 cm (64 × 67 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1085
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ProvenanceAugust, 1985, sold by Marcy Jacob, 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 (2001.157.142); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
1805-1810
about 1830
About 1820
mid-19th century
about 1825
about 1820
probably 1820–30
about 1850
about 1850
about 1850