Turnover Shawl

1835–1840

Medium/Technique2/1 Z twill ground; warp and weft: wool; 1/7 Z twill border patterned with supplementary continuous patterning weft tied in 3/1 Z twill; Warp: silk plied with wool; main weft: wool; pattern weft: silk and wool.

DimensionsHeight x width: 152.4 × 160 cm (60 × 63 in.)

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

Accession number2017.1126

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ProvenanceJanuary 1987, sold by Vose Smith Co., Portland, ME, 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 (2001.157.191); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)