Object name: Sari / Media available: image / Collection place: Sri Lanka (Ceylon) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21667, described as Sari; main body is kumquat colored, divided by fine red and gold lines into 3" square boxes with gold flowers in every other diagonal corner lower border is gold elephants and flowers on red; front panel is metallic gold with bands of gold flowers or gold elephants on red; edge is knotted macramé.

Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21666, described as Sari; magenta silk sari with gold borders and front panel of gold with flowers in red, yellow and purple, plus green leaves around a central solid gold rectangular area; main area is magenta with small gold flowers.

Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21557, described as Sari; L=540 cm x W=123 cm; 8 cm fringe knottted in bunches; magenta and turquoise ikat dyed; wide border is solid magenta; design of stepped diamonds surrounding squares; smaller yellow stepped diamonds and stepped “X”s; white stepped outlines around all designs. Note: botton and top edges of warp dyeing do not match endding of weft ikat pattern area ; 2.25 cm wide warp stripe is darger magenta.