Cheney Brothers printed satin dress silk, "Bulgarian", 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: A length of lightweight satin-weave silk, printed with a design of naively drawn flower sprigs on a red ground dotted with small irregularly drawn circles. Ground cloth is satin weave silk, light but having more body than charmeuse. The stylized modernist floral design has a 'Martine School' effect, with simplified motifs outlined in black, and very bright, Fauve-inspired coloring. Colors are bright green, magenta, yellow, and blue with black on red. T1041 and T1043 are colorways of the same design, titled "Bulgarian" by the manufacturer..
label: Description
content: Part of a large donation of fibers, yarns, fabrics, original designs, and printing tools given by Cheney Brothers, one of the earliest and largest of America's silk manufacturers, in 1913.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
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.T01042.000
label: catalog number
content: T01042.000
label: accession number
content: 56298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress silk
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: satin weave, cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 36 in; 76.2 cm x 91.44 cm