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Start Over Collector Joy Hilden Culture or time period Bedouin
Hearst Museum object titled Camel ornament, accession number 9-23707, described as Camel ornament, ghurtha. Goat hair warp is mostly covered with maroon weft twining. Black, orange, some blue, and a bit of green, all in triangle pattern; made either for self or for sale; to be hung from shoulder or rump of camel, tassels swinging as it walks; s-plied goat hair and wool; orange dye must be commercial, maroon or blue might be darkened with dried limes or Burnoog; plain weave and weft twining; threat count per inch both 12 EPI and 11 EPI; 28" cord of Egyptian braid at 4 corners with tassels and loose yarns. 3 14" strips, 2" wide at ends, ending in wide, heavy tassels in black goat-hair.
Hearst Museum object titled Camel ornament, accession number 9-23709, described as Camel ornament, ghurtha (mahgoobeh). Colors: black and red with orange, green, blue, and a little white. Decoration for camel, put on the rump. Large stuffed tassels, 3 at each end. Edges of weft-twined sections have blue and white wool over warps. Warp, goat hair: S-plied. sheeps wool, Z and S plied. Commercial dye. Warp-faced plain weave, weft twining. 8 EPI thread count per inch. Salesman said from Hasa, but Hilden thinks possibly Murah.
Hearst Museum object titled Camel ornament, accession number 9-23742, described as camel ornament., khannagah 4'10" x 2.5". Synthetic with 'weirjan. Has red, white, green tassels at end of 6" 3-strand braids. 2 at each end. Colors: red, white, black with thin stripes of green and yellow.
Hearst Museum object titled Camel saddle bag, accession number 9-23702, described as Small camel saddle bag, ineyni, for carrying provisions on camelback, day-pack. Colors: red, orange, blue (in center Saha panel), black and white. Three panels of Saha weave. Center panel is blue and orange, with 'weirjan and druse (molar) pattern on each side. Side panels of Saha in red and white with 5-warp wide chevron design in orange and black. 'Weirjan on each edge, with molar and tooth patterns. White cotton, 2-ply. Wool S-plied, cotton Z-plied, commercial dyes, thread count 13 EPI, pocket edges embroidered with "thras" in red and white, black and white, and red and black. Sides sewn together in chevron pattern in red, black, orange, and blue.
Hearst Museum object titled Chest ornament, accession number 9-23810, described as A neck and chest ornament, naid sar, of leather made of a pair of braided and twined tassels with lead bead ornaments. A string of glass and plastic beads is attached to both pieces of the pair at center chest. Each long tasseled ornament is made of two ropes, braided around a core, folded into a loop at the top end. The ropes are bound together tightly below the loop with circles of twining and lead beads, with beaded and tasseled strings hanging from that. Each of the ropes is bound similarly at midpoint, with white glass beads circling those bindings and more tassels at the ends. The bottom ends are decorated the same way as the middle ones. The ropes are fastened together loosely at the two decorative points with string. The two ropes are fastened together through the top loops with a 10" circle of blue electrical cord. Braiding and twining of leather strips circa 1/16 inch wide. Twining 11-12 EPI. Lead, plastic and glass beads, tassels.
Hearst Museum object titled Chest ornament, accession number 9-23813, described as A neck and chest ornament of leather, made of a pair of braided and twined tasseled ropes with lead and bead ornaments. Each long tasseled ornament is made of two ropes, braided around a cloth core, and folded in half to create loops with circlets of twining and lead beads, with leaded and tasseled string hanging from those. From here the ropes divide into twos, with twined and lead-beaded circlets on the four ropes at midpoint and lower end. Circlets of white glass beads decorate the tops and tassels hang from their ends. Each pair of ropes is fastened with string at the circlets, and at the tops of each of the middle and end circlets two sets of colored beads 9" long extends across the chest to corresponding tassel. The two decorated ropes are attached at the top loops by nylon net 12" long. Twining too closely covered by lead beads to determine thread count.
Hearst Museum object titled Coffee bean bag, accession number 9-23809, described as A knotted and braided coffee bean bag, mibin, of goat leather giving latticework effect with twined areas and lead bead decorations. Braided drawstrings, which passes through a series of braided loops, is broken and has two tassels at each end. Braided handle is 24" in length and has lead bead ring ornaments. The bottom has 2 finger-like appendages on either side of the main panel, 2.75" wide. All three are hollow and decorated with twining and lead beads in line and wave patterns. The ends are finished with curly leather tassels. A band of twining in the middle of the bag has lead beads worked into it in diamond patterns. Leather strips used are 1/8" - 1/16" wide. 9 EPI in twining, 6 EPI in knotted open area, approximately 15 rows per inch. Tassels on lead-beaded.
Hearst Museum object titled Color slide, accession number 25-98383, described as 35mm color slide transparency: "strip, formerly idle, 7'x25" from Ain al Arab, Jazirah, Syria, 50-60 years old in 1993". Close-up of textile with striped and diamond patterns; colored red, black, and white.
Hearst Museum object titled Cushion, accession number 9-23756a,b, described as Two (2) woven cushion covers, masnad Made from saddle blanket. Red, warp-faced weave. Each cushion was 1/2 the original piece. Was one long narrow strip with tassels on each end; flat and round. Z-ply. Dye used possibly madder. Warp-faced plain weave technique. Braids on edges circa 7" long. Tassels 4".
Hearst Museum object titled Cushion cover, accession number 9-23826a,b, described as saddlebag, khurj made into cushion covers lovely, almost pastel-colored bag, Faded condition, which was cut in half and used as cushion covers, 5 total. The inside reveals original bright colors. It is unusual because it appears to be made of linen or other bast fiber. The three panels of twined tapestry on the front of each bag are of wool, and their patterns are in triangles. The two bottom panels are 3" wide each and the top one is 1" wide. The background of the bag is plain weave. The tassels which hang from the twined panels are of more finely-spun linen than the rest of the bag. A hole in the middle, 7" long, is bound with the complex edging stitch Saudis call thras. The center of the bag are bound that way also, but the sides of the bags are joined with the chevron stitch. S-ply, commercial dye, 9-11 EPI. Plain weave with twined tapestry. Complex blanket stitch for edges; chevron stitch to join bag sides. Tassels decorate front of bag.

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