Shawl

Museum number:
9-16063
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090016063
Alternate number:
2752 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Silk faille. Corded plain weave; embroidery in corners, reversible; macramé fringes. About half yellow with cream cording, rest very light brown with cream; reverse side all cream; varicolored embroidery. Bias edge finished with selp bias binding. Spotted and ink splatters. 52 x 114; triangular.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
CHINA?
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works), Shawls, and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 52 inches and length 114 inches
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-16063, described as Silk faille. Corded plain weave; embroidery in corners, reversible; macramé fringes. About half yellow with cream cording, rest very light brown with cream; reverse side all cream; varicolored embroidery. Bias edge finished with selp bias binding. Spotted and ink splatters. 52 x 114; triangular.

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