Shawl
Catherine Francois Lefevre
(French)
about 1860
Medium/TechniqueField: 2/2 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: cotton and wool, resist dyed; patterning weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 342.9 × 153.7 cm (135 × 60 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1139
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ProvenanceMay 1987, 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 (2001.157.206); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)