MVC-0440 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
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
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India and Ceylon
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Gold (metal), and Weft [reassign]