Skirt

Museum number:
9-21489
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Alternate number:
MVC-0435 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Tube skirt; 2 woven pieces handsewn together horizontally, then seamed vertically to form a tube; plain weave; supplemental weft geometric design; blue-green background with plaid design with red and turquoise blue stripes; iridescent; central decorative panel of yellow, and red-purple stylized flower motifs border a center panel woven with alternating black and white "spool" shaped forms on either side of red and pale yellow geometric flower designs. Alternating black and white squares in blocks of 4 are placed within squares on one side of the central panel. L=129cm x W=97cm
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) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman's clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 129 centimeters and width 97 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 9-21489, described as Tube skirt; 2 woven pieces handsewn together horizontally, then seamed vertically to form a tube; plain weave; supplemental weft geometric design; blue-green background with plaid design with red and turquoise blue stripes; iridescent; central decorative panel of yellow, and red-purple stylized flower motifs border a center panel woven with alternating black and white "spool" shaped forms on either side of red and pale yellow geometric flower designs. Alternating black and white squares in blocks of 4 are placed within squares on one side of the central panel. L=129cm x W=97cm

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