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Shawl
British
about 1865
Object Place: Great Britain, United Kingdom
Medium/Technique
Jacquard woven, Field: 2/1 Z twill; Pattern: plain weave ground with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in plain weave; Warps: wool; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
Dimensions
Height x width: 327.7 × 165.1 cm (129 × 65 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession Number2017.983
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionRectangle, very large plain ivory center rectangle with predominantly red borders with green, blue, black, gold; self fringe, mosaic border.
ProvenanceNovember 1981, Show Commonwealth, Pier 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 (2001.157.9); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)