Shawl
about 1860
Object PlaceGreat Britain, United Kingdom
Medium/Technique1/3 S twill ground with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; warp: silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: wool; patterning weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 335.3 x 154.9 cm (132 x 61 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1182
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ProvenanceMarch 1989, 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 (2001.157.252); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1855
about 1860
about 1850
about 1850
about 1850
about 1860
about 1850