Cheney Brothers Chiffon Taffeta, 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Length of Cheney Brothers Chiffon Taffeta dress silk, 1913. All-silk. Very lightweight plain weave but with a slightly stiff taffeta-like finish. Yarn dyed. Reseda green (a medium leaf-green) (W. 36 in., L. 1-1/2 yd.) The sample was folded along several vertical creases, accelerating severe shattering into eight 4.5"x 36" strips. Cheney Silks retail label glued to corner of sample. The shattering of the silk suggests that this was not a pure-dye fabric, but was weighted with metal salts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
label: made at
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cheney Brothers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00040
label: catalog number
content: T00040.000
label: accession number
content: 55080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress silk
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, yarn-dyed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 yd x 36 in; 49.3776 m x 91.44 cm