Shawl
about 1840
Object PlaceGreat Britain, United Kingdom
Medium/TechniqueField: 2/2 S twill; Pattern: 1/3 Z twill patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; Warp: silk; main weft: silk; pattern weft: wool and silk
DimensionsHeight x width: 158.8 × 151.1 cm (62 1/2 × 59 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1107
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ProvenanceAugust 1986, sold by Paul Jones, London, 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 (2001.157.170); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
1835–45
about 1810
1810–20
about 1835
about 1865
1820–1830
1805-1810
about 1830
about 1875