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Start Over Donor Paul Vitale Materials Gold (metal) Function 2.1 Daily Garb
Hearst Museum object titled Belt, accession number 9-21471, described as Belting: Supplemental weft; dark blue and metallic gold thread; floral motifs within triangles with diagonal shapes. L=13cm x W=2.9cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21494, described as Sari; plain weave, double warps, single wefts; blue-red background with tiny yellow and light orange checks with scattered 2 faced discontinuous supplement weft motifs in white; selvage border stripes (from outside in) in dark red, bordered by alatenating narrow gold-red stripes, white red, narrow gold, pale yellow and blue stipes. 6.5 cm wide blue-green weft stripe at one end with solitary gold stripe bordered by tiny supplemental warp geometric motifs, white on one side, black on the other side. Two weft-faced light yellow stripes with tiny green checks, two narrow yellow-green check stripes with white motifs in between at other end; 1.5cm area of unwoven warp followed by woven section at both wrapdown
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21492, described as Sari; plain weave; discontinuous supplemental weft; light salmon-colored background with white warp and weft stripes; tiny dashes of red and green between white plain; pattern end has two bands of 5 varying widths of gold weft stripes with 4 diamond motifs made of red and green dashes between the bands; 2cm of unwoven warps followed by 2cm of woven cloth at both ends; selvages made up of 3 warp strings, 1 narrow purple supplemented warp in twill floats and 2 purple with gold ovals supplemental warp on red background L=520 x W=116
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21485, described as Sari: Two faced patterning; bright yellow-green cloth with 5 gold metallic warp end band stripes alternating plain gold weft-faced stripes, and with supplemental weft of gold and narrow green supplemental weft in a floral design; supplemental warp gold and red silk side stripes; narrow floral border on bottom; supplemental warp gold floral pattern stripe with dark red centers along both selvages; discontinuous supplemental weft of god diamonds with red or green centers throughout and concentrated into 5 diagonal bands near end border. L=486cm x W=117.5cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Sari; textile, accession number 9-21488, described as Sari; Twill weave; light sea green with 3 rows of gold supplemental twill warp design near 1 selvage; small segments of fibers in magenta and blue inlaid between 2 rows of gold supplemental warp; 6.5 - 7cm inlay strips of gold threads in curvilinear design between 2 rows of gold supplemental warp; white warp with .5sm red-violet twill weave supplemental warp on 1 end; 1cm stripe of gold twill weave supplemental warp on other end; light sea green weft with stripes of gold in varying widths on the last 32cm on 1 end; small area of unwoven warp at both ends L=456cm x W=116cm
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21524, described as Shawl: L= 223 , W=75.5 ; Dark red silk w/ gold, diamond grid pattern and 8-pointed gold stars or flowers in diamond centers. Stylized tree motifs & geometric patterns in horizontal band at end. Geometric pattern borders on both sides of center field. Fringe 1.5 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21527, described as Shawl; L=86.0cm, W=82.5cm; Purple silk with 3 ivory & black warp stripes on each side, creating a central panel of supplenentary weft design using gold metalic threads to form scrolled “v’”s. Vertical side panels w/ green & purple stripes.
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21534, described as Shawl; white with gold; paisley shaped areas of elephant hunters wearing pith helmets chasing tiger; 7 cm x 7.5 cm quadrants with central gold elephant and gold stripe border; 14 cm gold supplemental weft border at both ends; horizontal gold warp stripes; hemmed edges;
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21535, described as Shawl; plainweave; sheer turquoise and purple with gold elephant motifs; 5 cm supplementary weft band of gold with elephant and plant motifs at bottom of both ends; 8 supplementary weft rows of gold elephant designs; 2 small rows of gold stripes on both ends; 1 cm gold stripe at both sides of warp.
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21457, described as Sari: Magenta/blue with gold borders; material changes from magenta to blue, depending on the light and position; gold borders and front panel in a floral motif. 114 cm. w x 249 cm. l.

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