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Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 7-10031, described as Woman’s dress (outer garment), open-front, straight, long sleeves, constructed of tightly woven warp-faced wool, indigo blue color, from 38 cm. wide fabric. Lower front opening and bottom edge of sleeves and entire bottom edge of pleated skirt (including 13 cm. high side slits) are embellished with narrow white plain-woven strip 3 cm. wide, attached with four rows of red running stitches. Sleeve edge bears additional loop design of yarn and cross-stitched diamond motif in blue and green. Entire outer edge of garment and ventilated underarm seams are edged with 3 rows of braiding, red, yellow and blue, and one raised, wrapped cord (or gimp) of alternating black and white bands (black and blue on sleeves). Bands of embroidery 4.5 cm. are around bodice neck opening, across shoulders and around seam of sleeves. Edges of embroidery are red, yellow and white chevrons, central motifs on shoulders and sleeves are red crosses, fancy reverse Z’s in red, yellow and green. There are beaded medallions on inside of back waistband. Dyes are probably from the Georgian plains. Width at waist: 80 cm; length of garment: 93 cm; total circumference at skirt bottom: ~355 cm; length of sleeve: 28 cm; total length from sleeve cuff to sleeve cuff: 116 cm; width of sleeve opening: 19 cm (38 cm circumference). Back of skirt (pleated portion) is composed of 17 gores, each ~19 cm wide at the bottom. Back skirt pleats are constructed from raised seams of gores and reinforced by downward projections of embroidery from the back of the waist.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21533, described as Shawl; turquoise ground with printed floral designs; dark blue-black warp; royal blue weft; block printed overall motif of olive green leaves, tendrils and pink flowers w/ beige outlines; 2 selvaged edges; 4.75 cm turquoise blue border on each end; 7.5 cm knotted, blue-black warp fringe.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21549, described as Shawl L=196 cm x W=50.5 cm; black warp with red-violet and metallic wefts; 7 horizontal rows of metallic patterning in geometric motifs evenly spaced through the length of the shawl; 14 cm metallic and red-violet patterned border in rows of geometric motifs; 4 cm unknotted black fringe;

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 9-21505, described as Shawl; with 4 cm knotted fringe; heavy wool, ecru background with 5 figured bands composed of flowers (2) with leaves, people (children) (2), and geometric (diamond) shapes (1), in red, blue, green, dark-brown, and light-brown separated by double bands of 2 dark brown stripes; discontinuous supplemental weft designs; definite back and front face to design;

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21536, described as Shawl; turquoise-blue ground with predominantly “gold” metallic patterning, finely woven/. Turquoise warp and weft, plain weave, with narrow gold stripes at borders, and gold with purple, green, blue, orange, and yellow supplementary weft patterning; isolated floral motifs in discontinuous supplementary weft; ca. 2.3 cm border at each end in continuous supplementary weft; warp ends folded over and sewn down; fringe ca. 6.2 cm long, of gold-colored metallic thread looped through double row of twined gold-colored threads, sewn to each warp end.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21539, described as Shawl; W=57 cm x L=185 cm; 6.0 cm warp fringe knotted once; black warp 5 cm borders on each end with bronze-like weft; bronze field printed in palmettes, flowers in vases, stylized crosses and random smaller floral and geometric motifs and turquoise, purple, red, orange scattered over the field; tied warp fringe in black; dye on back comes out white, red and light blue

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21575, described as Shawl; light blue-green with supplemental weft gold metallic geometric pattern; 14 cm border with small gold crosses; 7.5 cm warp fringe;

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-23438, described as shawl or "pa biang" Black cloth with 12 stripes in white, maroon, orange, green and yellow in the weft. These stripes divide the ends into sections filled in with geometric embroidery in matching colors.

Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-5470, described as Shawl; silk; corded plain weave, embroidered; red; floral designs; macrame fringes; 80 inches x 80 inches including fringes; modern; “Spanish.”