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Shawl

(French, 1851–1865)
about 1834
Object PlaceParis, France
Medium/TechniqueField: 2/2 S twill; Pattern: 1/3 S twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 S twill, clipped; Warp: wool?; main weft: silk: pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 188 × 189.2 cm (74 × 74 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1272
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ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceSeptember 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 (2001.157.360); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)