Sari

Museum number:
9-12073
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012073
Alternate number:
152 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2963
Description:
Sari; Parsi; silk, rayon, cotton; floral motifs in white silk embroidered on black Chinese silk ground with woven pattern of dots; machine woven border 5 cm. wide in white silk floral motifs on black cotton ground attached to parts of sari which show in wear; L. 584 cm., W. 120 cm. Made by Chinese artisans, exported to India from China. Worn in the Style of Gujerat by Parsi women. This figured silk is known as ojharyu. Border was probably attached fairly recently and is probably not Chinese. Black and white are considered quite auspicious, not funereal, by Parsis.
Donor:
Shireenbai Kapadia
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Culture or time period:
Parsi
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection date:
August 13, 1972
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saris (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-12073, described as Sari; Parsi; silk, rayon, cotton; floral motifs in white silk embroidered on black Chinese silk ground with woven pattern of dots; machine woven border 5 cm. wide in white silk floral motifs on black cotton ground attached to parts of sari which show in wear; L. 584 cm., W. 120 cm. Made by Chinese artisans, exported to India from China. Worn in the Style of Gujerat by Parsi women. This figured silk is known as ojharyu. Border was probably attached fairly recently and is probably not Chinese. Black and white are considered quite auspicious, not funereal, by Parsis.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-12073, described as Sari; Parsi; silk, rayon, cotton; floral motifs in white silk embroidered on black Chinese silk ground with woven pattern of dots; machine woven border 5 cm. wide in white silk floral motifs on black cotton ground attached to parts of sari which show in wear; L. 584 cm., W. 120 cm. Made by Chinese artisans, exported to India from China. Worn in the Style of Gujerat by Parsi women. This figured silk is known as ojharyu. Border was probably attached fairly recently and is probably not Chinese. Black and white are considered quite auspicious, not funereal, by Parsis.

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