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Shawl
French
about 1830
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Field: 2/2 Z twill; Borders: 2/2 Z twill patterned with supplementary 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: 340.4 × 147.3 cm (134 × 58 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession Number2017.1271
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionDesign consists of medium cream colored center field with four illegible signatures stitched in each of the four corners encircled by a chain of stylized thistles. Surrounding center field are red and black bent tip botehs, at center of each side are two botehs forming a heart shape with tips pointing toward center. Main border consists of six large bent tip botehs separated by small cone shaped botehs emanating from urns. The inner and outer horizontal borders contain stylized florals and geometric shapes, edged by narrow black bands of florals with vine motif. Vertical border consists of same pattern. On either end harlequin fringe gates in black, red, green, orange, and blue. Sikh period pattern dochalla
ProvenanceJuly 1994, sold by Frank Ames, New York, 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 (2001.157.359); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)