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Shawl
French
about 1840
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Field: 3/1 Z twill; Borders: 1/3 Z twill patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; warp: silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: silk and wool; pattern weft: wool
Dimensions
Height x width: 345.4 × 156.2 cm (136 × 61 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession Number2017.998
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionOblong, large oblong light cerulean blue center; deep, detailed red-orange borders w/burgundy, ivory, black, gold, green with green selveges; harlequin border with self fringes.
ProvenanceJune 7,1982, sold by Antique Textiles Company, London, 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 (2001.157.30); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)