Turnover shawl
about 1835
Medium/TechniqueField: 2/2 Z wool twill; Borders: 1/3 Z twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; warp: silk?; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 160 × 157.5 cm (63 × 62 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1101
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ProvenanceAugust 1986, 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 (2001.157.163); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
1805-1810
about 1830
about 1860
about 1840
About 1820