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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.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21556, described as Sari; pastel gray; wide blue bands alternated w/ narrow yellow bands and a wide yellow band with multicolored chevrons bordering pale blue front panel decorated w/ paisley motifs in yellow, red, blue and green. Warp is grey with 1 cm blue on each selvedge edge; other end has band of white and blue stripes; weft is grey, blue, yellow, green with rows of small green, yellow, blue and red supplemental weft motifs throughout cloth.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21558, described as Sari; turquoise blue raw silk with brown saw-tooth border and front panel of fine blue-green and brown stripes alternating with finely patterned brown and gold or turquoise and white stripes with supplemental weft patterning within stripes. Note; sari length 203 cm, plus 85 cm; connected by a red warp without weft where it would normally be cut (91 cm from end.)