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Start Over Object name Sari Collector Rachel Gould Mossman
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 9-21494, described as Sari; plain weave, double warps, single wefts; blue-red background with tiny yellow and light orange checks with scattered 2 faced discontinuous supplement weft motifs in white; selvage border stripes (from outside in) in dark red, bordered by alatenating narrow gold-red stripes, white red, narrow gold, pale yellow and blue stipes. 6.5 cm wide blue-green weft stripe at one end with solitary gold stripe bordered by tiny supplemental warp geometric motifs, white on one side, black on the other side. Two weft-faced light yellow stripes with tiny green checks, two narrow yellow-green check stripes with white motifs in between at other end; 1.5cm area of unwoven warp followed by woven section at both wrapdown
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21492, described as Sari; plain weave; discontinuous supplemental weft; light salmon-colored background with white warp and weft stripes; tiny dashes of red and green between white plain; pattern end has two bands of 5 varying widths of gold weft stripes with 4 diamond motifs made of red and green dashes between the bands; 2cm of unwoven warps followed by 2cm of woven cloth at both ends; selvages made up of 3 warp strings, 1 narrow purple supplemented warp in twill floats and 2 purple with gold ovals supplemental warp on red background L=520 x W=116
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21493, described as Sari; lightweight plain weave cotton; royal blue with green and gold selvages; rows of small white two faced suppplemental weft flowers throughout; many white flowers between green and white border stripes make up front panel; weft color stripes mark off sections; temple pattern along green edging; green borders are heavier weaveq
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 9-21485, described as Sari: Two faced patterning; bright yellow-green cloth with 5 gold metallic warp end band stripes alternating plain gold weft-faced stripes, and with supplemental weft of gold and narrow green supplemental weft in a floral design; supplemental warp gold and red silk side stripes; narrow floral border on bottom; supplemental warp gold floral pattern stripe with dark red centers along both selvages; discontinuous supplemental weft of god diamonds with red or green centers throughout and concentrated into 5 diagonal bands near end border. L=486cm x W=117.5cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21477, described as Sari: Red border at each end with 5 rows of patterning in white dots depicting elephants, conch shells, flowers, leaves, and other objects; yellow dots in field; 17.5cm side borders with 1 row of yellow dots and white dotted flower and conch shell images; center is yellow with repeating pattern of three white dots; red squares with white centers, and large red circular motifs with white dots in center throught yellow field; warp threads are patterned in self-colored bands by use of 2 thicker threads every 1cm of warp; red border color bleeds into yellow. L=531cm x W117cm.
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.

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