Mallinson's "Stripe DeluxKnit" fabric, 1920
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1920
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of knitted dress goods, heavy weight jersey knit, artificial silk fabric in tubular form as it comes from the machine--stripe pattern--used for sport suits and sweaters: Color: dark blue
label: Description
content: For a few years in the 1920s the H.R. Mallinson silk manufacturing company sold a small line of knitted fabrics trademarked as DeluxKnit". NMAH holds a few samples of these fabrics; this example in dark blue alternates bands of narrow vertical stripes with a wider, plain knit stripe. These knit goods were meant for "cut and sewn" garments, meaning they were not knitted to shape, but used just as flat woven cloth would be to cut out and make up dresses, blouses, or other fashionable garments. Mallinson faced some bad publicity when it was revealed that not all of the yarns used in the knitted goods were silk-the new synthetic fiber, rayon (called artificial silk when it was first introduced) appeared in some of them. Consumer advocates held the company to account for using a trademark selvage stamp "Mallinson's Silks Deluxe" for non-silk fabrics, so the company added another stamp, "Mallinson's Fabrics Deluxe" in response.
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.T04167
label: catalog number
content: T4167
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 4167
label: accession number
content: 64858
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tubular knit fabric
label: Object Name
content: machine-knit fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: artificial silk (early rayon) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: machine knitted (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm