Oriental Silk Printing Co.'s "Russian" printed dress silk fabric sample, 1916
date: label: Date made
content: 1916
notes: label: Description
content: Sample of Oriental Silk Printing Co.'s "Russian" printed dress silk, 1916. A lightweight plain weave silk similar to HR MAllinson's trademark Pussy Willow taffeta. An allover cylinder printed design titled "Russian" printed with small x's and squares on a white ground to imitate Cross Stitch embroidery. This sample with a dense design of 4-pointed geometric figures and filler motifs, perhaps meant to be flower heads, and connecting lines, in green, red, yellow, blue, and black on white. Design and Colorway as T03010.000; Ground cloth as T03009.000
label: Description
content: The Oriental Silk Printing Company also produced a trade magazine from 1922 to 1927 called The Master Silk Printer. It was self-promotional but also served as a vehicle within the fashion industry for providing information related to silk apparel for women. The Paterson-Haledon area of New Jersey was the main center of the silk textile manufacturing industry in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and this was where the company was situated. Most of these factories had showrooms in New York City in what is still known as ‘The Garment District,’ and many advertised through this trade publication. Companies selling other fashion industry goods such as dyes, machinery, chemicals, ribbon, and related products also advertised here. Oriental Silk Printing Company was in business from the early 1900s to the mid 1930s, at which point their mills moved from New Jersey to the South.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Oriental Silk Printing Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T03011.000
label: accession number
content: 59532
label: catalog number
content: T03011.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
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content: fabric sample
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content: Fabric Sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
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content: yellow (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: red (overall color)
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content: blue (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: white ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 40 in; 38.1 cm x 101.6 cm