Duplan Silk Corporation figured crepe satin dress silk; 1921.
date: label: Date made
content: 1921
notes: label: Description
content: Duplan Silk Corporation figured crepe satin dress silk length; 1921. Figured novelty crepe in gold and cerise. A silk crepe fabric with a lustrous broken surface in an 'ondulee' or waved effect produced by the interlacing of the extra weft artificial silk yarns on the back of the fabric. These yarns floating on the face of the goods form a detached flower motif combined with a satin warp figure. These techniques create shadows and dimension within the motif. Colors are cerise and gold. Majority of detail in floral motif not visible on wrong side, which is nearly all gold.
label: Description
content: Jean Leopold Duplan, a French businessman, founded Duplan Silk Company in New York in 1898 as an extension of his silk weaving plant in Lyons, France. The 1897 American tariff spurred Duplan to supply the American silk market with domestically made cloth. Duplan Silk began producing artificial silk (now known as rayon) as early as 1911. The lustrous artificial silk was spun from cellulose and a gelatin extracted from seaweed. Duplan himself was quite secretive about the artificial silk production process, keeping the looms in a separate, boarded section of the mill. Eventually, Duplan Silk produced silk velvets, formulated its own dyes, and printed fabrics in its own mill.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Hazleton
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 the Duplan Silk Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T04271.000
label: accession number
content: 67087
label: catalog number
content: T04271.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: artificial silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cerise (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: crepe satin (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: jacquard woven, compound weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm