Shawl
1805-1810
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/Technique2/2 S twill ground patterned with continuous patterining wefts, clipped and tied in 3/1 Z twill; main warp: silk; main weft: silk; pattern wefts: silk and wool; borders stitched to central field
DimensionsHeight x width: 258.4 × 127 cm (101 3/4 × 50 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1267
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ProvenanceMarch 1993, sold by Frank Ames 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 (2001.157.355); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1840
1845-1850
about 1820
about 1830
probably 1820–30
about 1860
1805-1810
about 1840