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Reversible shawl
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Reversible shawl

about 1875
Object PlaceGreat Britain, United Kingdom
Medium/TechniqueReversible weave with two pairs of warps and supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave; Warps: silk; main weft: wool; pattern wefts: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 160 × 169.5 cm (63 × 66 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1246
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ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceJune 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 (2001.157.324); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)