Cheney Brothers Taffeta Dress Silk, 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sample length of Cheney Brothers dress silk, warp-faced plain weave taffeta. All-silk. Yarn dyed; wide pink and white warp stripes with 2 narrow pink stripes on each side of the white stripe. Fairly stiff, medium sheen. Pink and cream warp stripes, white silk weft yarns.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
label: made at
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cheney Brothers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00032
label: catalog number
content: T00032.000
label: accession number
content: 55080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress silk
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pink, white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, yarn-dyed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 1/2 in x 50 in; 67.31 cm x 127 cm