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Shawl
about 1865
Object Place: Europe
Medium/Technique
Jacquard woven, Field: 2/1 Z twill; Pattern: plain weave ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave; Warp: silk plied with wool; wefts: wool
Dimensions
Height x width: 335.3 × 160 cm (132 × 63 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession Number2017.981
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionOblong; small starshaped black center; predominantly red-orange w/green, blue, ivory, gold. "Art nouveau-like whiplash" design; integral harlequin border on short ends; self fringe tied at coner edges only.
ProvenanceSeptember 1981, Show Souga, Boston, to Martha Bayles Boyd (b.1929-d.2010), Reston, Virginia; 2001, gift of Martha Bayles Boyd, Reston, Virginia, to the American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA (2001.157.6); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)