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Shawl

Bietry Pere Fils & Cie.

about 1865

Object PlaceFrance

Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 Z twill; Pattern: 1/3 Z twill ground with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; warp: silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: wool and cotton?; patterning weft: wool

DimensionsHeight x width: 345.4 × 162.6 cm (136 × 64 in.)

Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection

Accession number2017.1109

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ClassificationsCostumes

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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 (2001.157.172); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)