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Shawl
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Shawl

about 1875
Medium/TechniqueJacquard woven with plain weave ground and supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 4/1 Z twill; Warps: silk; main weft: silk; pattern weft: silk
DimensionsHeight x width: 297.2 × 143.5 cm (117 × 56 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1188
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ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceMay 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 (2001.157.258); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)