Shawl
about 1820
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/Technique2/2 S twil field and 1/3 S twill borders patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 S twill, clipped; warp: silk?; main weft: silk:; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 255.3 × 124.5 cm (100 1/2 × 49 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1216
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Not on viewClassificationsCostumes
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ProvenanceJune 1990, sold by Frank Ames, New York, 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 (2001.157.292); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1840
1845-1850
probably 1820–30
about 1840
about 1848
second quarter of 19th century
about 1849, maybe earlier
1805-1810
about 1840