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Shawl
possibly French, Nimes
about 1965
Object Place: Europe
Medium/Technique
Field: 2/1 Z twill; Pattern: plain weave ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave, clipped: main warp: wool plied with silk; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
Dimensions
Height x width: 325.1 × 160 cm (128 × 63 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession Number2017.982
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Contemporary Art, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionRectangle, small black center; 'black outlining', standard Paisley for export; predominantly red with green, blue, ivory, some orange; mosaic border with self fringe. Cloth name tag handsewn on reverse, upper proper right 'Mi W Smith'.
ProvenanceNovember 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 (2001.157.7); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)