Blanket

Museum number:
9-18234
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Accession number:
Acc.4038
Object count:
1
Description:
Blanket (all-purpose cloth used for wrap, hammock, baby carrier, etc.): indigo ground; patterned bands of fine geometric designs and stripes on broad strip of red ground on both ends of blanket (there is a continual variation in pattern in these bands). Made from 4 pieces of handwoven cotton hand-stitched together; natural dyes (indigo and cocchineal red (?)); black weft thread; supplementary warp design; rolled hand-stitched hems.
Donor:
Beth Harnex MacLafferty Blake
Collection place:
Southeast Asia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1989-1990 #11: Wing Luke Museum (December 5, 1989–July 17, 1990)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 9-18234, described as Blanket (all-purpose cloth used for wrap, hammock, baby carrier, etc.): indigo ground; patterned bands of fine geometric designs and stripes on broad strip of red ground on both ends of blanket (there is a continual variation in pattern in these bands). Made from 4 pieces of handwoven cotton hand-stitched together; natural dyes (indigo and cocchineal red (?)); black weft thread; supplementary warp design; rolled hand-stitched hems.

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