Pelgram & Meyer. "Pompadour Jacquard Ribbon", 1914
date: label: date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Pelgram & Meyer
notes: label: Description
content: Pompadour (floral style) jacquard-woven ribbon sample. Dark blue cotton ground ribbon with woven artificial silk pattern of individual rose and leaf clusters alternating direction. Narrow 'crescent and dash' borders on the selvage sides. Colors are light yellow, green, red, and a medium blue. This is a very early use of "artificial silk" (which was dubbed Rayon several years later). At the time this ribbon was made, artificial silk was very shiny - so shiny it was not considered usable for a whole piece of fabric, only for adding shine as a patterning yarn. In the 1920s chemists would discover a treatment they called "delustering" that allowed textile manufacturers to create fabrics with matte-finished rayon yarns. Shiny rayon was still most often used just for patterning. One of a group of ribbons given by Paterson, NJ, ribbon manufacturer Pelgram & Meyer in 1914.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Paterson
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Pelgram & Meyer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T02499.00A
label: catalog number
content: T02499.00A
label: accession number
content: 57564
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ribbon
label: Object Type
content: ribbon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: artificial silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: jacquard-woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/16 in; 8.0645 cm