Shawl
about 1860
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueField: 3/1 S twill; Pattern: 1/3 S twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 S twill, clipped; warp: wool plied with silk, resist dyed; main weft: wool and cotton; patterning wefts: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 315 × 165.1 cm (124 × 65 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1266
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ProvenanceFebruary 1993, 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 (2001.157.354); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1855
about 1848
about 1850
about 1850
about 1840
1845-1850
probably 1820–30
about 1849, maybe earlier