Mallinson's Morocco series dress silk; "Sahrawi"
date: label: Date made
content: 1931
name: label: maker
content: H R Mallinson and Company, Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: A length of Mallinson's Morocco series printed silk crepe:"Sahrawi". A smooth lustrous plain weave silk fabric made with crepe weft yarn as in flat crepe. Company numbers - fabric quality #450; pattern #3612; color #22. Printed pattern of a desert flower, or dweller of the desert, a combination of floral ornamentation with Arabic script in a widely spaced, detached layout. Colors include: "dark brown, nebular gray, kuro gold, yellow, tan, and black on eggshell ground." One of H.R. Mallinson's 1930 "Morocco" print series, inspired by the film starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, which was nomiated for 4 Academy Awards in 1931.
label: Description
content: Once the Great Depression took hold in 1930, textile companies attempted to remain profitable by cutting costs, including moving from "Pure Dye" to "Weighted" silks: weighting meant adding a chemical to the dye bath that was absorbed by the silk and made it fel somewhat heavier and of a better quality.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T06754
label: accession number
content: 112893
label: catalog number
content: T06754.000
label: catalog number
content: T6754
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 6754
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: dark brown (overall color)
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content: grey (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cream ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 38 in; 91.44 cm x 96.52 cm