Shawl
about 1875
Medium/TechniqueCentral field: 2/2 Z twill; pattern areas with ground of plain weave patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave and clipped; Warp: silk plied with wool; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 174 × 175.3 cm (68 1/2 × 69 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1244
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ProvenanceMay 1991, sold by Maureen Boyd 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 (2001.157.321); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
