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Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21667, described as Sari; main body is kumquat colored, divided by fine red and gold lines into 3" square boxes with gold flowers in every other diagonal corner lower border is gold elephants and flowers on red; front panel is metallic gold with bands of gold flowers or gold elephants on red; edge is knotted macramé.
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21666, described as Sari; magenta silk sari with gold borders and front panel of gold with flowers in red, yellow and purple, plus green leaves around a central solid gold rectangular area; main area is magenta with small gold flowers.
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-21557, described as Sari; L=540 cm x W=123 cm; 8 cm fringe knottted in bunches; magenta and turquoise ikat dyed; wide border is solid magenta; design of stepped diamonds surrounding squares; smaller yellow stepped diamonds and stepped “X”s; white stepped outlines around all designs. Note: botton and top edges of warp dyeing do not match endding of weft ikat pattern area ; 2.25 cm wide warp stripe is darger magenta.
Hearst Museum object titled Sari; textile, accession number 9-21500, described as Sari. Navy blue silk with magenta and turquoise repeated floral paisley motifs; 8 magenta and turquoise flowers, and gold and turquoise leaves in gold vases are woven horizontally up the front panel; wide bordering bands of gold, turquoise and magenta with flowers and leaves divides the front panel from the rest of the sari and borders the textile. L=565 x W=115.5
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21551, described as Sari; handwoven; plain weave; pale yellow fabric with white embroidery (and drawnwork within some leaf shapes); 40 cm embroidered band at one end; 3 cm wide embroidered flower and vine band extends 1/2 length of sari
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21558, described as Sari; turquoise blue raw silk with brown saw-tooth border and front panel of fine blue-green and brown stripes alternating with finely patterned brown and gold or turquoise and white stripes with supplemental weft patterning within stripes. Note; sari length 203 cm, plus 85 cm; connected by a red warp without weft where it would normally be cut (91 cm from end.)
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.
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21556, described as Sari; pastel gray; wide blue bands alternated w/ narrow yellow bands and a wide yellow band with multicolored chevrons bordering pale blue front panel decorated w/ paisley motifs in yellow, red, blue and green. Warp is grey with 1 cm blue on each selvedge edge; other end has band of white and blue stripes; weft is grey, blue, yellow, green with rows of small green, yellow, blue and red supplemental weft motifs throughout cloth.
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21458, described as Sari: Very rich silk sari in gold with blue and red; elephant motifs plus small birds; wide band of lush gold floral designs and elephants on red on the end panel; fringe is in fine macrame; selvages have wide band of gold. Principle design is of elephants in squares with gold birds at each corner in yellow or red on a blue ground; squares are formed by vertical and horizontal bands of gold. 121cm w. x 503 cm.l.
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21459, described as Sari: Royal blue silk sari with gold and red; overall motif of small flowers in a vase; borders are gold with red leaf motif; front panel motif is a gold temple wall with flute players in niches; ends are in macrame. 117 cm w. x528 cm l.

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