Shawl
about 1850
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 Z twill; Pattern: 1/3 Z twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; warp: wool plied with silk, resist dyed; main weft: wool; patterning wefts: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 182.9 × 166.4 cm (72 × 65 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1087
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ProvenanceAugust 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 (2001.157.144); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)