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Start Over Donor Lawrence E. Dawson Materials Wool (textile)
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 3-30377, described as woven wool bag with woven handles, tied together to form a loop. natural tan and brown wool woven as a single rectangular piece then folded at center and closed at each side with hand stitching. patterns include: i) herringbone, continuous wave, bands, geometric diamonds with multiple borders on one side, ii) herringbone, continuous wave, bands and stars (8-pointed) divided by zigzags and embellished in negative space with diamonds and crosses. applied handles.
Hearst Museum object titled Cord, accession number 16-20591, described as hand woven cord; brown, cream and black; finished with 6 braided tails at one end and loose fringe at the other. combination of cotton (brown) and wool (cream, black) yarns.
Hearst Museum object titled Dance aprons, accession number 2-72499a,b, described as natural wool, embroidered along bottom 34cm with geometric patterns and bands in black, navy, green and red. finished with 7.5cm fringe and red stitched border the length of each side. red yarn ties at each corner of apron top.
Hearst Museum object titled Poncho, accession number 16-20602, described as woven llama (and alpaca) wool - brown, very dark brown, and cream in perpendicular stripes of varying width. brown stripes divided by narrow (3cm) dark brown and cream bands woven in wide triangles and 0.5cm bands of black and cream. bordered on all 4 sides with dark brown band. neck slit is bound with cotton fabric (purplish-brown).
Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 16-20596, described as braided rope of llama wool; brown, tan, gray. tied off at one end with fringe gray yarn and by a yarn twist at the other.
Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 16-20597, described as braided llama wool rope; dark brown, light brown, gray, tied off a tone end with red yarn hanking and at the other with magenta yarn hanking. braid narrows at one end to 2-strand braid for the last 7cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Rope, accession number 16-20595, described as braided rope of llama wool (cream, brown, dark brown). handmade.
Hearst Museum object titled Sash, accession number 16-20590, described as woven wool (commercial yarn) sash. striped (length-wise: wine, cream, black, cream, wine) with 5 woven tails at each end (same as 5 stripe colors), finished with tassels at the end of each.
Hearst Museum object titled Sling, accession number 16-20594, described as woven wool sling; tan, brown and red llama or alpaca wool. cords tan and brown woven on a diamond pattern; sling cup brown and tan woven in triangular points with slit at center. red and cream warp threads from cup woven directly into cords. one end of cord unfinished; the other woven with a loop 11cm from the end then finished with a tassel.
Hearst Museum object titled Sling, accession number 16-20593, described as woven sling of llama of alpaca wool (brown and black) yarn, decorated with small, multicolored (yellow, brown, blue, red, green, pink) pom-poms along length of cords and at either side of woven cup. cup woven directly into cords using white warp threads, cords end with a pom-pom at one end and a small loop at the other.

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