Textile

Museum number:
9-15856
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015856
Alternate number:
2749 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Shawl or cover for piece of furniture. Silk, metal wrapped yarns, cotton lining. Silk damask, embroidered; braid trim; heavy macrame´ fringe; twill weave lining; damask band. Cream ground, varicolored embroidery, yellow lining, red damask top band, gold colored fringe. Floral motives in embroidery. 2 inches by 70½ inches, curved.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Near East, Asia
Verbatim coll. place:
NEAR EAST?
Materials:
Metal and 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 22 inches and length 71 inches
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15856, described as Shawl or cover for piece of furniture. Silk, metal wrapped yarns, cotton lining. Silk damask, embroidered; braid trim; heavy macrame´ fringe; twill weave lining; damask band. Cream ground, varicolored embroidery, yellow lining, red damask top band, gold colored fringe. Floral motives in embroidery. 2 inches by 70½ inches, curved.

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