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Start Over Donor Kathleen Vitale
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 3-30358, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-72067, described as RGM hand woven wool blanket made by RGM's great grandmother Curtis, who lived on a farm in Maine; RGM note affixed to the blanket says that the blanket is hand woven by her great grandmother, and that the wool was spun on old spinning wheel; the spinning wheel (very large in size) was given by Marilyn Mossman Webster (now deceased) to the Los Altos History House Museum during the 1990s; blanket is off-white with dark blue band across both ends; worn, patched, spotted, very old and used.
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 16-20169, described as Blanket; 144 x 155 cm; medium blue background with mustard; green, purple and royal blue embroidery; trim overstitched with yellow; heavy brushed wool.
Hearst Museum object titled Blouse, accession number 3-30232, described as RGM blouse (?), 34" by 37 inches from shoulder to lower edge; reverse of material shows stripes of purple and white; right side of material is covered with rows of abstract designs in bands of gold, blue, red, turquoise, pink, green, etc. from bottom up; neck is finished in satin (?) with 2 birds embroidered on front and back.
Hearst Museum object titled Blouse, accession number 3-30231, described as RGM unfinished blouse with side seams sewn, but neck not cut out; blouse measures 19" from shoulder to lower edge, and is made up of 3 pieces of 14" wide textile sewn together; main color is black with multicolored design that include an animal that could be a llama; pattern bands do not match from one piece of textile to another; weaving seems crude.
Hearst Museum object titled Blouse, accession number 3-30236, described as RGM blouse; 27 1/2" wide by 26 inches from shoulder to lower edge (one edge has an additional fringe); made up of three pieces of textile sewn together with white thread; center panel is basically red with multicolored designs, while side panels are red and white striped with less designs; middle panel has design of 5 human figures (women?) with hats, among others.
Hearst Museum object titled Blouse, accession number 9-21664, described as Sari blouse: Bust measurement = 94.0 cm; shoulder measurement = 40.0cm. Magenta w/ irregular stripe of lighter color, square neck in back; modified V neck in front; short sleeves; metal hooks down front w/ thread loop eyes; snaps and thread loops inside shoulders to keep bra straps from showing; cotton lined.
Hearst Museum object titled Blouse, accession number 3-30239, described as RGM blouse; 22' wide by 23 inches from shoulder to lower edge; width can be augmented by an additional 4 inches by letting out two pleats (for a child to grow into it?); pattern and colors very similar to MVC-0113 except for the addition of red and blue reinforcement decoration around the arm holes and the neck.ph
Hearst Museum object titled Blouse, accession number 3-30228, described as RGM unfinished blouse (?), 37" wide by 50 1/2 inches long; made up of two lengths of textile sewed together; neck has not been cut out, ends have not been finished off; selvages are red and purple; purple predominates in the women pattern bands with bands of multicolored designs added in; the front and back of this piece would not match because one end has a multicolored zigzag band that is not matched on the other end. Reverse shows large spot.
Hearst Museum object titled Blouse, accession number 9-21663, described as Sari blouse: 94.0cm at bust; 40.0cm at shoulders. Royal blue silk, lined with dark blue cotton; short sleeved; machine stitched with hand hemming, metal hooks w/ thread eyes; snaps & thread loops inside shoulders ( used to keep bra straps from showing).

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