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Shawl

French
about 1850
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique Field: 3/1 S twill; Pattern: 1/3 S twill ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 S twill, clipped; Warp: silk, resist-dyed; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
Dimensions Height x width: 182.9 × 177.8 cm (72 × 70 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession Number2017.1010
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionMedium feathered cream center, jungle border, burgundy. Marked: "SH"
ProvenanceNovember 1982, sold by Marcy Jacobs, Marblehead, MA, to Martha Bayles Boyd (b.1929-d.2010), Reston, Virginia; 2001, given by Martha Bayles Boyd, Reston, Virginia, to the American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA (2001.157.44); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)