Shawl

Museum number:
9-21540
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090021540
Alternate number:
MVC-0510 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Shawl: Multicolored, silk, W=58.5cm x L=188.0cm, plus knotted warp fringe; woven color bands run across the textile, while hand painted (?) and resist (?) patterns flow throughout, changing the colors in the stripes. Colors are purple, pink, blue, green, fuchsia, turquoise and gold.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Woman’s garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 58.5 centimeters and length 188 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Shawl, accession number 9-21540, described as Shawl: Multicolored, silk, W=58.5cm x L=188.0cm, plus knotted warp fringe; woven color bands run across the textile, while hand painted (?) and resist (?) patterns flow throughout, changing the colors in the stripes. Colors are purple, pink, blue, green, fuchsia, turquoise and gold.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Shawl, accession number 9-21540, described as Shawl: Multicolored, silk, W=58.5cm x L=188.0cm, plus knotted warp fringe; woven color bands run across the textile, while hand painted (?) and resist (?) patterns flow throughout, changing the colors in the stripes. Colors are purple, pink, blue, green, fuchsia, turquoise and gold.

Tools