Turnover shawl
about 1875
Medium/TechniqueWool 2/1 S twill center with attached border of 1/3 Z twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied with 3/1 Z twill; Warp: wool; main weft: wool: pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 166.4 × 165.1 cm (65 1/2 × 65 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1224
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ProvenanceOctober 1990, sold by Faye Foster 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 (2001.157.300); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1860
1805-1810
about 1840
About 1820