Shawl
about 1830
Object PlaceGreat Britain, United Kingdom
Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 Z twill; pattern: plain weave ground patterned with continuous supplementary patterning wefts tied in plain weave; Warp: silk; main weft: silk; pattern wefts: silk and wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 147.3 × 154.9 cm (58 × 61 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1158
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ProvenanceApril, 1988, sold by Rou Simpson Textiles, 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 (2001.157.227); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
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