Object class: Clothing / Collection place: South Asia / Culture or time period: Sri Lankan cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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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 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 Textile, accession number 9-21668, described as Shawl: Green and black silk shawl with woven gold pattern at the ends; fringe.