Object name: Textile / Materials: Weft [reassign] / Function: 2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21529, described as Fabric panel: L=270.0 cm, W= 80.0 cm; multi-colored silk textile; warp = 8 stripes (each ca. 10cm wide) in blue, orange, green, gray/blue, yellow, purple, pink and yellow/brown. Each stripe has similar bands of discontinuous supplemental weft patterning in geometric and sylized floral motifs. Discontinuous supplemental weft threads are black; continuous weft threads are green, yellow and white

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 10-3417, described as Cloth; 132 x 53 cm; aqua pina cloth with 7 bands of shiny white flowers; 2 selvedge edges, one cut edge and ending in white band, 1.5 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21161, described as “Textile off the loom”. Single piece of long rectangular cloth, folded in half length-wise and sewn together along one side to produce a double-width cloth flat at one end, cupped or hooded at the other. Dark blue warp and weft with ~1mm W red and off-white warp stripe on one side; on other side, ~2mm W off-white warp stripe and broader band of off-white warp stripes flanking red, off-white, and blue warp stripes. Center of red, off-white, and blue section has narrow pattern in off-white warp floats. At hemmed side, cloth is folded over and tightly sewn with red and off-white thread; thread of color not being used is passed to outside of cloth to form decorative red and off-white bands. Central length of hem with unfolded selvedges and simple sewing in off-white thread. Warp ends at flat end of cloth are sewn inside band of off-white cloth. Dark stains noted on cloth. Along unhemmed selvedge, ~64cm from “hooded” end, white weft direction thread (think supplementary weft rather than embroidery as no pierced threads noted and white thread visible between alternate warps) forms letters(?) similar to “PLE” where the “E” has 4 bent horizontal lines; separate piece of heavier thread sewn into “X” above “E”. Cloth as woven = 470cm L x 33cm W. Cloth as folded/sewn = 235cm L.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 10-3413, described as Yardage; 531 cm x 60 cm; one end cut; other end has stiffining material to last .5 cm. Off-white with rows of flowers and lines in supplementary weft..

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 10-3447, described as Cloth; 154 cm x 90 cm; cloth constructed of five pieces- 3 vertical, on at each end horizontal; two sides - multicolored vertical stripes with 5 black and white bands of warp-float patterning of geometric designs; center panel: vertical stripes of white black, yellow, green, magenta, with center band of magenta and yellow warp-float patterning of people and geometric designs; each end of center panel has 22 cm section of supplemental weft geometric patterns in black, yellow, orange, and light green; endbands, sewn horizontally across at ends; multicolore warp stripes-predominantly red.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21162, described as “Textile off the loom”. Rectangular cloth. Dark blue warp and weft. Warp at one selvedge slightly lighter blue, undecorated. Other selvedge has band of warp stripes in yellow pink, blue, and red; warp ikat pattern of narrow bands in 2 blue stripes. Broad band of yellow, pi nk, blue, and red warp stripes almost at center of cloth; off-white center stripe with some pink/red staining. At intervals along center stripe, ~2.5cm bands of red supplementary weft patterns bordered by single line dark blue thread (wrapped warps?). Warp ikat in some blue stripes, pale pink warp floats in others. Warp ends hemmed. 204cm L x 63cm W.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21674, described as Fabric panel; stiff red and white warp ikat with 1 cm supplemenatry weft bands of white, black, and yellow-green every 3 cm; 18.5 cm red and white ikat forms border on each end.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 10-3416a,b, described as Yardage; natural color pina cloth; very sheer with supplemental weft pattern of leaves forming a diagonal grid. a) 67 cm x 1104 cm; b) 64 cm x 1104 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 16-20299, described as Band (fragment); 49 cm l x 3.5 cm w. red and natural white warp; white warp face design of connected ovals with small dots overall; supplementary weft bands 1 cm w. in red, yellow, green, pink, and blue.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15854, described as Cloth, kente. Consists of 14 - 9.3cm W strips machine sewn together. Blue warp with weft-faced and supplementary weft repeating patterns in yellow, red, green, orange, white, and black. All warp ends ravelled. Attached tag reads “AWP 1976 - #7 - kente cloth - purchased Mar - Palime at Togo - John Sabah’s 'weaving factory’ “. 188cm x 122.5cm.