Object class: Main garments / Collection place: South Asia / Materials: Gold (metal) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-21552, described as Man’s robe; off-white, sleeveless robe. Twill weave; gold supplemental weft designs and braid along front opening, shoulders and armholes; 3 stripes of gold near center of each front; 52.5 cm x 15.75 cm gold chevron with flame-like extensions ending in leaf-like sahpeas at shoulders; supplemental weft gold stripe extending 32 cm from shoulder; 15 cm gold stripe under each armhole; back covered with similar shapes as front; 59 cm x 69.5 cm central panel; 2 9 cm x 48 cm shapes on side of center panel; hem of back has 61 cm x 28.5 cm gold flame-like extensions ending with leaf-like shapes; special braiding around neck edge; paper interfacing on back neckline

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 9-21485, 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; textile, accession number 9-21488, described as Sari; Twill weave; light sea green with 3 rows of gold supplemental twill warp design near 1 selvage; small segments of fibers in magenta and blue inlaid between 2 rows of gold supplemental warp; 6.5 - 7cm inlay strips of gold threads in curvilinear design between 2 rows of gold supplemental warp; white warp with .5sm red-violet twill weave supplemental warp on 1 end; 1cm stripe of gold twill weave supplemental warp on other end; light sea green weft with stripes of gold in varying widths on the last 32cm on 1 end; small area of unwoven warp at both ends L=456cm x W=116cm