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Turnover shawl
Scottish, Edinburgh
about 1825
Object Place: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Medium/Technique
Wool 2/2 Z twill ground; pieced with 3/1 Z twill patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; Main warp: silk; main weft: silk; pattern weft: silk
Dimensions
Height x length: 141 × 139.7 cm (55 1/2 × 55 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession Number2017.994
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionSolid green square, "pieced" turnover shawl with attached, finely woven "jaggedy edged design" borders of muted ivory, rose, green, tan; two 10 3/4" deep borders, two 1 1/2" narrow. Attached green fabric self fringes on two sides. Beautiful appliqued larger boteh with background designs on narrow bordered turnover corner. Notes on polaroid say "probably Edinburgh".
ProvenanceMarch 1982, sold by Harriet Bridges, Harvard, MA, 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 (2001.157.25); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)