Advanced Search
Requires Photography
Shawl
French
about 1840
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Field; 2/2 Z twill; Borders: 1/3 Z twill with supplementary discontinuous and continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; Warp: silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
Dimensions
Height x width: 334 × 149.2 cm (131 1/2 × 58 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession Number2017.988
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
Description"Sikh" pattern; large black rectangular center; multicolored border with "13 colors"; self fringes. Very finely woven. *date varies from Ames Appraisal Study list of 1/16/00 (c. 1840) vs. entry in F. Ames book, The Kashmir Shawl and its Indo-French Influence, and his invoice to Martha Boyd (c.1825-30).
ProvenanceDecember 22, 1990, sold by Frank Ames, New York, NY, 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 (2001.157.17); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)