Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Image Not Available for Shawl
Shawl
Image Not Available for Shawl

Shawl

about 1850
Medium/Technique1/3 Z twill with supplementary discontinuous and continuous patterning wefts, clipped and tied in plain weave; warp: silk; main weft: wool; patterning wefts: wool.
DimensionsHeight x length: 139.7 × 142.2 cm (55 × 56 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1136
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceApril, 1987, sold by Jim Couover, Scituate, MA, 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 (2001.157.203); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)