A.H. Straus & Co. 'Luxor Taffeta' dress silk, Persian stripe design; 1917.
date: label: date made
content: 1917
name: label: maker
content: A H Straus and Company
notes: label: Description
content: A. H. Straus & Co. printed taffeta dress silk length; 1917; orange ground with spaced wavy stripe printed design. "Luxor Taffeta" made by A. H. Straus & Co. Commercially known as "Sasanidian-Web", a lustrous, reversible fabric with a discharge-printed Persian design in vertical stripes, taken from a costume of 6th and 8th centuries. Original in Milan. Colors: blue, purple, green, and black on an orange ground. Geometric and floral wave print. The print is three inches wide with three inch gaps between. Inconsistent colors, especially with the purples. Printing appears to have slight imperfections with some blurred lines and uneven filling. THis and T2549B may have been inspired by the same Persian textile.
label: Description
content: A. H. Straus and Co. was active in the 1910s and 1920s. The company was based in New York City and was a premier manufacturer of printed silks. Many fabric lengths in this collection have prints copied from ancient textiles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web object
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 A H Straus and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T2549A
label: catalog number
content: T2549A
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 2549A
label: accession number
content: 61633
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
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content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: orange ground (a) (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: taffeta (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, discharge-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 41 in; 91.44 cm x 104.14 cm