Object name: Shawl / Collector: Rachel Gould Mossman / Culture or time period: Indian - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21540, described as Shawl: Multicolored, silk, W=58.5cm x L=188.0cm, plus knotted warp fringe; woven color bands run across the textile, while hand painted (?) and resist (?) patterns flow throughout, changing the colors in the stripes. Colors are purple, pink, blue, green, fuchsia, turquoise and gold.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21527, described as Shawl; L=86.0cm, W=82.5cm; Purple silk with 3 ivory & black warp stripes on each side, creating a central panel of supplenentary weft design using gold metalic threads to form scrolled “v’”s. Vertical side panels w/ green & purple stripes.

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 9-21541, described as Shawl: L=177 cm x W=55.7 cm; grey, green, and blue striped warp; irredescent deep pink weft; 8 cm knotted fringe; metallic (gold) double interlocking weft selvage on one side; other side hemmed with yellow warp and large band of medium blue, bright green, greenish-black, and medium grey stripes.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21534, described as Shawl; white with gold; paisley shaped areas of elephant hunters wearing pith helmets chasing tiger; 7 cm x 7.5 cm quadrants with central gold elephant and gold stripe border; 14 cm gold supplemental weft border at both ends; horizontal gold warp stripes; hemmed edges;

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21538, described as Shawl; W=55 cm x L=200 cm, including 65.0 cm knotted fringe on each end; plainweave; ikat warp stripes of yellow, fuschia, dark blue, purple, burgundy, orange, green and grey; white weft; hemmed on one edge; selvage on other edge.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21536, described as Shawl; turquoise-blue ground with predominantly “gold” metallic patterning, finely woven/. Turquoise warp and weft, plain weave, with narrow gold stripes at borders, and gold with purple, green, blue, orange, and yellow supplementary weft patterning; isolated floral motifs in discontinuous supplementary weft; ca. 2.3 cm border at each end in continuous supplementary weft; warp ends folded over and sewn down; fringe ca. 6.2 cm long, of gold-colored metallic thread looped through double row of twined gold-colored threads, sewn to each warp end.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21539, described as Shawl; W=57 cm x L=185 cm; 6.0 cm warp fringe knotted once; black warp 5 cm borders on each end with bronze-like weft; bronze field printed in palmettes, flowers in vases, stylized crosses and random smaller floral and geometric motifs and turquoise, purple, red, orange scattered over the field; tied warp fringe in black; dye on back comes out white, red and light blue

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21575, described as Shawl; light blue-green with supplemental weft gold metallic geometric pattern; 14 cm border with small gold crosses; 7.5 cm warp fringe;

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21570, described as Shawl; 3cm tassels; dark purple-blue rectangular commercial cloth; embroidered heavily at ends in floral designs and horizontal band; metal mirrors at flower centers, scattered individual flowers cover the of rest of the cloth; bright yellow, red, white and green embroidery; tiny white beads sewn within red designs; small cotton tassels (16 and 17) sewn along each end; selvedges and warp ends embroidred in yellow.