Scarf
about 1860
Medium/Technique2/2 Z twill ground with attached borders of 1/3 Z twill patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; Warp: silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 238.8 × 35.6 cm (94 × 14 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1211
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ProvenanceMay 1990, acquired by 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 (2001.157.285); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1830
about 1840
about 1840
about 1848
about 1875