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Hearst Museum object titled Camel ornament, accession number 9-23709, described as Camel ornament, ghurtha (mahgoobeh). Colors: black and red with orange, green, blue, and a little white. Decoration for camel, put on the rump. Large stuffed tassels, 3 at each end. Edges of weft-twined sections have blue and white wool over warps. Warp, goat hair: S-plied. sheeps wool, Z and S plied. Commercial dye. Warp-faced plain weave, weft twining. 8 EPI thread count per inch. Salesman said from Hasa, but Hilden thinks possibly Murah.
Hearst Museum object titled Camel ornament, accession number 9-23710, described as Camel ornament, malabbah. White, (cotton) red, orange, and black. A little green around diamond lozenges in weft twining. A series of braids and tassels hang from a 15" portion at center, where camel's front/chest would be. Outstanding feature of the piece is wasm design woven in. Wasm are from the Al Saud, the royal family. Basic wasm is a stick (matrak) with a circle on each side. Some of these wasm have a dot inside the circle. This is also a T wasm in the design. Ends are strongly sewn around sticks and bound with polyester print fabric. Nylon rope is attached to wool cording that was sewn in. Nylon rope, 30 " long, was to tie onto camel. End of weave was twined twice. Ends of weft twining are left as tufts on the selvage. Placed across chest and flanks of camel. May have been made on commission. Z-plied cotton, S-plied wool. Commercial dyes used. Warp-faced plain weave with weft twining. 14 EPI thread count per inch.
Hearst Museum object titled Camel saddle bag, accession number 9-23702, described as Small camel saddle bag, ineyni, for carrying provisions on camelback, day-pack. Colors: red, orange, blue (in center Saha panel), black and white. Three panels of Saha weave. Center panel is blue and orange, with 'weirjan and druse (molar) pattern on each side. Side panels of Saha in red and white with 5-warp wide chevron design in orange and black. 'Weirjan on each edge, with molar and tooth patterns. White cotton, 2-ply. Wool S-plied, cotton Z-plied, commercial dyes, thread count 13 EPI, pocket edges embroidered with "thras" in red and white, black and white, and red and black. Sides sewn together in chevron pattern in red, black, orange, and blue.
Hearst Museum object titled Headstall, accession number 9-23711, described as Headstall for horse, rasan hisan constructed of 2 pieces; weft-twined neck piece with tassels, braided, and weft-twined decoration to which tassels are attached. Nose piece: 40" x 3.5". Neck piece: 27" x 1.5". Card-woven lead: 3/4" x 11', in wool, black and white with red stripes. Lead ends in 2 finger-woven pieces with "M" pattern 15" long. Waft twined nose and neck piece sewn together crudely with red plastic twine. Card-woven lead sewn onto hand-wrought iron fittings the same way.
Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 9-23839, described as Piece of ground loom, natu. Made of synthetic yarns bought in quantity and plied by family members on hand spindles. It is the end of a much longer piece 31" of it woven. It came with one beam of black plastic pipe. There is a sleeve for the other beam, where the cloth was folded and sewn. The heddle bar is 1"x1" waste lumber; heddles of red and red-orange synthetic yarns, and white sheep wool. The warp and weave are bright color on black. Red, fuchsia, green, blue, and white in stripes, molar pattern, il'weirjan, and checks. The family made a lot of these for their use as cushions and rugs. See #23. Made for self. S-plied, warp faced plain weave, 13 EPI. synthetic yarns, sheep wool
Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 9-23840, described as Loom, natu; spindle, mighzil, distaff, tighzalah. This loom was set up for a demonstration for me. It is plain weave and of rough brown sheep wool from the hairy, indigenous sheep whose wool resembles goat hair. The yarn is thick and dirty and there is absolutely no pattern in the weave. The beams and rods are of rough waste wood, intended for a wider piece of weaving. The heddle rod is a dowel formerly a broom or mop handle. Heddles are of orange wool. These weavers hung the heddle rod on wooden supports made from forked tree branches. They were buried in the sand and moved as the weaving progressed. They are 17" long and 1/2" in diameter. The stick shuttle is 21" long and made of a palm branch 3/4" thick. The Cross rod is a used 1"x1" piece of waste lumber. The spindle is very simple and doesn't even have a whorl, but only a nail. there is a large ball of spun singles yarn on it. The distaff is split palm branch 25" long and approximately 1" thick. The twisted wool roving is jammed into the split. The sword beater she used was amazingly rough; it did not come with the loom nor did the gazelle horn that she used as a hook beater. S-twist, Z-ply, warp-faced plain weave, 5 EPI. sheep wool, wood
Hearst Museum object titled Pillow cover, accession number 9-23712, described as Pillow cover, masnad (pillow) sheeps wool and white cotton
Hearst Museum object titled Rug, accession number 9-23714, described as Rug, mafrash. Two panel piece with 'weirjan and mithkar patterns, ladder pattern, and plain stripes. Base color maroon with dark blue, crimson, accents of white, with black selvedge. Sewn together with faggotting in two color pairs. Nothing done with fringes. One edge is short and worn, the other is 6" long and in okay condition. Faggotting nicely done. S-ply. Dye probably some plant dyes. Warp-faced plain weave with warp substitution. 15 EPI thread count per inch.
Hearst Museum object titled Rug and tent wall, accession number 9-23708, described as rug, tent wall; mafrash, data. Main color: red, with 4 bands of black goat hair. 2 panels sewn together with double-plied yarn in stitch like chicken tracks. Black and white Saha panels 2" wide, with 'weirjan, molar pattern and narrow colored stripes around it. Mithkar, pattern, 3/4" on outer edges. Altogether, on each panel, 2 sets of 1/4" bands of red, orange, and blue. Width of whole piece is uneven: it pucks when laid flat. Made for self. Z-plied black goat hair. Colored wool s-plied. Commercial dyes most likely used. Warp-faced plain weave with warp substitution weft-twined bands at both ends, 10" wide at one end and 11" and 9"; threat count per inch 16 EPI; Kru-coast braids at both ends. Weft twined bands at both ends. Diamond lozenge designs are made up of triangles. There is one orange tassel on the uneven fringe. Purchased from weaver and her husband.
Hearst Museum object titled Saddle bag, accession number 9-23822, described as saddle bag. A strip of complementary warp patterning, warp-faced - two pieces sewn together. colors: rust background, with navy blue, moss green and a little white. A strong resemblance to two Syrian pieces already in the Hilden collection, #s 115, 116, which I bought in Aleppo. sheep wool rust colored weft. S-ply possibly natural dyes. 23 EPI, ends hemmed crudely. Some edges torn, unraveling parts of seam which Hilden repaired.

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