Shawl
Towler, Campin & Cie
(English, 1846–1851)
about 1830
Object PlaceGreat Britain, United Kingdom
Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 Z twill; Pattern: 1/3 Z twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; warp: silk; main weft: silk; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 153.7 × 166.4 cm (60 1/2 × 65 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1170
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ProvenanceNovember, 1988, 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 (2001.157.240); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1850
about 1865
about 1875
about 1855