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Shawl
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Shawl

Berrus Freres
about 1867
Object PlaceParis, France
Medium/TechniqueField: 2/1 Z twill center; pattern: plain weave ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning weft tied in plain weave, clipped; main warp: Silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: wool; pattern warp: silk plied with wool; pattern weft: wool.
DimensionsHeight x width: 334 × 161.3 cm (131 1/2 × 63 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1263
On View
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ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceOctober 1992, 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 (2001.157.351); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)