112 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4812
Description:
Girth strap, rasan. Card-woven in black and white with two single stripes in red. Simple diamond pattern. Stunning because of orange strips and embroidery, probably added for cushioning. Orange strips: 2.5" wide x 3'8" long - plain weave and fastened 30" from ends, leaving 38" plain card weaving in middle. Embroidery in 3" and 8" long patches, using colored plied wool yarn in diamond patterns, which hold the orange backing onto the card-woven strip. The intervening areas are unsewn. Cord weaving, plain weave on orange. The last few inches are braided flat and tied into a tassel. Ibrahim says it's 80 years old. S-ply, 9EPI, commercial dye.
Donor:
Joy Hilden
Collection place:
Palmyra, Syria
Verbatim coll. place:
Palmyra, Syria
Culture or time period:
Bedouin
Collector:
Joy Hilden
Collection date:
March 1993
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cinches
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Production date:
Supposedly 1913
Accession date:
October 15, 2019
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— length 190 inches and whole— width 2 inches