Textile

Museum number:
9-21554
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0524 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Sari; L=536 cm x W=109 cm; very fine (sheer) woven; white warp; pink weft; thin white weft stripes on each end; 2 rows of blue ovals in discontinuous supplemental patterning with white flower and plant designs in center of turquoise blue ovoid shapes; .5 cm of each selvage has white stripe of grouped warp threads; knotted fringe at panel end; small pink tassels attached to one end; other end is cut and unfinished; 2.5 cm from unfinished end is 2.5 cm of open area where warp is unwoven
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India and Ceylon
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1963
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Woman’s garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 536 centimeters and width 109 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: small brown spots
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21554, described as Sari; L=536 cm x W=109 cm; very fine (sheer) woven; white warp; pink weft; thin white weft stripes on each end; 2 rows of blue ovals in discontinuous supplemental patterning with white flower and plant designs in center of turquoise blue ovoid shapes; .5 cm of each selvage has white stripe of grouped warp threads; knotted fringe at panel end; small pink tassels attached to one end; other end is cut and unfinished; 2.5 cm from unfinished end is 2.5 cm of open area where warp is unwoven

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