Bolster cover

Museum number:
9-23803
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
150 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4812
Description:
Crocheted bolster cover, shughul soof sahrafa, made of gaudy multicolored synthetic yarns in double crochet. Owners were proud of this piece. It has a backing of synthetic white cloth sewn on by hand. Patterns are in rows of triangles called bakra (plural bakaar). Lines are 'arjah. Synthetic yarns. Fringe was tied on around the edges.
Donor:
Joy Hilden
Collection place:
Umluj, Tabuk Region, Saudi Arabia
Verbatim coll. place:
Umlaj, Saudi Arabia
Culture or time period:
Bedouin
Collector:
Joy Hilden
Collection date:
January 1990
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.5 Household and 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
c.1990
Accession date:
October 15, 2019
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Comment:
32" x 10", not including added fringe
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bolster cover, accession number 9-23803, described as Crocheted bolster cover, shughul soof sahrafa, made of gaudy multicolored synthetic yarns in double crochet. Owners were proud of this piece. It has a backing of synthetic white cloth sewn on by hand. Patterns are in rows of triangles called bakra (plural bakaar). Lines are 'arjah. Synthetic yarns. Fringe was tied on around the edges.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bolster cover, accession number 9-23803, described as Crocheted bolster cover, shughul soof sahrafa, made of gaudy multicolored synthetic yarns in double crochet. Owners were proud of this piece. It has a backing of synthetic white cloth sewn on by hand. Patterns are in rows of triangles called bakra (plural bakaar). Lines are 'arjah. Synthetic yarns. Fringe was tied on around the edges.

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