Shawl
about 1848
Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 S twill; Borders: 1/3 S twill patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 S twill, clipped; warp: silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: cotton; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 363.2 × 161.3 cm (143 × 63 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1110
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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 (2001.157.173); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1840
1845-1850
about 1860
about 1855
about 1860
about 1849, maybe earlier
about 1820
about 1840
about 1850
probably 1820–30