Collector: Rachel Gould Mossman / Culture or time period: Asian cultures / Materials: Wool (textile) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Panel, accession number 9-21506, described as Embroidered panel; paired warp and weft; chain-stitch embroidery fills the entire panel; off-white base fabric; multi-colored (43.5 cm x 44 cm) scene of female dancer and cymbal player; branch with flowers, leaves, and bird on brown background; yellow and tan-brown figures; selvage on 1 side of ground panel; cut threads on 3 sides.

Hearst Museum object titled Panel, accession number 9-21572, described as Fabric panel; blue-green wool; cut from longer piece; rough weave, uneven selvedge.

Hearst Museum object titled Rug, accession number 9-21659, described as Boiled wool rug: L=125.0cm, W=91.0cm, plus 4.0 cm fringes all around. Boiled & flat-pounded wool, then pieces are cut out and other pieces inserted and stitched into place to form the pattern. Outer color is green w/ white inste and small green a small green inset in the center. Reug is emborodered around the inset edges in two shades of pink. Area between center and outer edgeis filled w/ emroidered flowers and leaves in various shades of green and mustard/gold. Narrow band of pink embroidery forms a border around the entire rug. Pattern is very balanced. Only one emboridery stitich is used throughout; a loop-chain where the new stitch comes up through the center of the last loop.

Hearst Museum object titled Scarf, accession number 9-21516, described as Scarf; off-white wool ground with embroidered designs; square of serpentine in blue, encloses blue,red & dark red small leaf patterns scattered in the enclosed field; four large floral medallions in red, blue and black in corners within square.

Hearst Museum object titled Scarf, accession number 9-21517, described as Scarf; off-white near square, woven in twill with embroidered pattern of curvilianiar border in red, blue, and turquoise forms a square; isolated florals scattered within square and a single corner design of floral motif in one corner; thread ends form unfinished fringe 1 cm on all sides.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21513, described as Shawl; 2 x 2 twill weave; pieced from 5 pieces of cloth- 3 lengthwise &1 at each end. Machine stitched seams covered with embroidery; white with large black inset center; floral black and white chainstitch embroidery- black on white ground and white on black ground; embroidered patterns include grapes and leaves at each end, leaf motifs throughout, and stylized floral border along each selvage; 1 cloth selvage handseamed, 1 woven selvage; warps are grouped and tied in bundles to form decorative fringe, except for 1 cm woven strip at each selvage.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21511, described as Shawl; double-faced twill weave; brown on 1 side; pink on other side; isolated single flowers and leaves throughout; 10.5 cm wide floral borders; identical embroidery on both sides; soft orange, pink, blue, deep red, and green embroidery on brown side; turquoise, medium blue, yellow ,and green on pink side; orange blanket stitch along selvage; 1.3 cm wide tab of woven area at each selvage is cut and unraveled to form fringe;

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21518, described as Shawl; off-white ground with deep,curviliniar, floral borders on four sides. Designs printed in red, turquoise, blue, caramel and pink; attached fringe 11 cm on all sides is. knotted to make tassels; selvedges rolled, warp ends hemmed. L=165.0cm: W=164.0 + 11.5cm fringe;

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21507, described as Shawl with 4 cm fringe; 2 x 2 twill weave; fine chainstitch, hemstitch, and decorative wrapped fringe work embroidery; light blue; biege, tan, and 2 shades of green floral pattern embroidery at each end; small flowers throughout; 1 row of wrapped and bundled warps form decorative holes 3 cm up from fringe

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21510, described as Shawl; twill woven, medium-brown warp & weft Kashmir shawl with fine embroidered pattern of isolated tiny flowers in rust/gray-brown and pink throughout the gound; narrow embroidered floral bands along selvages and across ends, also of rust/gray-brown and pink flowers, leaves and tendrils. Buttonhole stitch in dark red runds along each selvage from about 2 cm from end of weaving at one end to virtually very end of cut warp threads on other. This shawl appears to be signed (?) in blue in one corner.