Shawl
about 1867
Object PlaceFrance
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: wool and cotton; patterning weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 358.1 x 165.7 cm (141 x 65 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1183
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Collections
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 (2001.157.253); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1875
1835–45
about 1840
about 1830
about 1860
about 1860
about 1835