Moon Shawl
about 1835
Medium/TechniqueField: 2/2 S twill; Pattern: plain weave ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 S twill, clipped; Warp: silk; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 161.3 × 166.4 cm (63 1/2 × 65 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1124
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ProvenanceDecember 1986, sold by Frank Ames 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 (2001.157.189); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1840
1845-1850
second quarter of 19th century
probably 1820–30
about 1820
about 1840
about 1850
about 1850
about 1860