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Shawl
French
about 1845
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Field: 2/1 Z twill; Borders: 1/2 Z twill with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 2/1 Z twill, clipped; Warp: silk plied with wool, resist dyed; main weft: wool; pattern weft: wool
Dimensions
Height x width: 351.8 × 161.3 cm (138 1/2 × 63 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession Number2017.1280
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionDesign consists of medium black feathery center in the shape of a butterfly with bent tipped boteh in four corners overlapped by meandering vine like motifs. Outer edges of center field contain scalloped fan shape with single bent tip boteh outlined in blue. Top and bottom ends contain two long narrow pink patterned bent tipped botehs ending in a flower tip, two snake like botehs one yellow one cream, two sweeping zoomorphic botehs that split before forming the bent tip, two red tree like botehs with multiple bent tip offshoots. All borders are edged by narrow black floral bands and contain vining thistles. Harlequin fringe gates are green, black, red, light blue, and gold. , transitional Sikh-Dogra period patterning
ProvenanceOctober 1995, 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 (2001.157.369); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)