Shawl
about 1840
Object PlacePaisley, Scotland, United Kingdom
Medium/TechniqueField: 2/2 S twill; Pattern: 1/3 S twill patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 S twill, clipped; warp: silk plied with wool; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool.
DimensionsHeight x width: 175.3 × 177.8 cm (69 × 70 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1207
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Not on viewClassificationsCostumes
Collections
ProvenanceApril 1990, 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 (2001.157.281); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1840
1845-1850
second quarter of 19th century
about 1820
probably 1820–30
about 1860
about 1835
about 1848
about 1840
about 1855