Sash

Title

Sash

Identifier

ABDUA:5518

Description

Loom-woven beaded sash with background of white beads, and black beads in a geometric 'H'-like motif which appears nine times. The motifs are placed with the long sides of the ‘H’-es running parallel to the length of the sash. The sash is 26 beads wide. The motifs have three white beads on each side, and the black lines forming the ‘H’ are two beads wide. The motifs are filled in with white – four beads wide, and the short line in the centre of the H is three beads high. The beads are of somewhat irregular size.
The warp is red/dark orange wool which appears to have been dyed irregularly as it is mottled with a tan colour and there is only one warp between each ‘column’ of beads. The twisted fibre weft goes over-under-over-under.

There is no weft underneath the final rows of beads. Instead, two warps from each side of a bead are twisted together, holding the bead in place. Some of these twists – specifically the shorter ones, have come undone. Some of the longer ones are knotted in several places.

Roughly 9,670 beads