Stewart Silk Co orange crepe faille fabric length; 1914
date: label: Date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Stewart Silk Company
notes: label: Description
content: Stewart Silk Co orange crepe faille fabric length; 1914. Warp-faced plain weave rib weave with a crepe finish. Burnt orange color. Pinked edges. Some light colored striping possibly from folding or sun damage.
label: Description
content: John Wood Stewart was born in 1856 in New York City. In 1897 he became a stockholder and New York representative with the Phillipsburg Silk Mill Company. He then acquired the stock, and opened a larger facility in South Easton with a new mill and the addition of the Eastern Throwing Company, a throwing mill. The Perfect Dyeing and Finishing Company was also shortly added, and these three eventually incorporated to create the Stewart Silk Company. John Stewart died in 1922. Commercial Factors Company purchased the Stewart Silk Mills property in 1930.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Stewart Silk Co
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01303
label: accession number
content: 56748
label: catalog number
content: T01303
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: Burnt orange (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: crepe faille (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, rib (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm