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Shawl
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Shawl

about 1830
Object PlaceGreat Britain, United Kingdom
Medium/TechniqueField: 2/2 Z twill; pattern: plain weave ground patterned with continuous supplementary patterning wefts tied in plain weave; Warp: silk; main weft: silk; pattern wefts: silk
DimensionsHeight x width: 161.3 × 156.2 cm (63 1/2 × 61 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1108
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ClassificationsCostumes
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 (2001.157.171); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)