Shawl
about 1820
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/Technique1/3 Z twill patterned with supplementary discontinuous and clipped continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave: warp: silk; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 266.7 × 134.6 cm (105 × 53 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1093
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ProvenanceJune 1986, acquired by 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 (2001.157.153.); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1840
About 1820
mid 19th century
about 1835
about 1850
about 1840
about 1850
about 1850