Shawl
about 1830
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueField: 2/2 Z twill; Borders: 2/2 Z twill patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped: Warp: silk plied with wool, resist-dyed; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 340.4 × 147.3 cm (134 × 58 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1271
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ProvenanceJuly 1994, 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 (2001.157.359); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1840
about 1860
about 1845
about 1835
1810–20
about 1875
about 1867