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Hearst Museum object titled Panel, accession number 9-21479, described as Fabric panel: Twill weave; green ground with white weft stripes with linear ikat motifs in white, blue, red, orange, yellow, and blue on 1 end; floral ikat yellow orange, magenta and blye, at other end; band of white ikat stripes along both selvages; back and front are different shades of green. L=175cm x W=100cm.

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 9-21667, 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 9-21557, 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 Sari; textile, accession number 9-21500, described as Sari. Navy blue silk with magenta and turquoise repeated floral paisley motifs; 8 magenta and turquoise flowers, and gold and turquoise leaves in gold vases are woven horizontally up the front panel; wide bordering bands of gold, turquoise and magenta with flowers and leaves divides the front panel from the rest of the sari and borders the textile. L=565 x W=115.5

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21559, described as Shawl; L=195 cm x W=75 cm; with 3.5 cm fringe; plaid silk; 3/1 twill of silk, in magenta, purple, green, gold, white & blue; front shows warp dominant stripes, back is weft dominant.

Hearst Museum object titled Table runner, accession number 9-21532, described as Table runner; Fragile, metallic, gold table runner; gold central rectangle surrounded by wide band of flowers in pink, orange, blue and green in five contiguous bands.

Hearst Museum object titled Tablerunner, accession number 9-21531, described as Runner; soft red and green with flower and leaf borders; red horizontal borders with narrow metallic (gold) double interlocking weft stripes at top and bottom; 4 bands of varying height with stylized red, green, off-white, blue and black plants, flowers, and leaves; several weights and color variations in warp give subtle vertical stripe effect; hemmed on 3 sides; cut edges on bottom edges; hems turned to front face so gold thread in narrow borders shows at edge;

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.)