Doherty & Wadsworth Co floral print dress silk sample, "Mikado Crepe"; 1914.
date: label: Date made
content: 1914
notes: label: Description
content: Doherty & Wadsworth Co floral printed silk dress fabric sample, "Mikado Crepe"; 1914. A pompadour (small detached sprigs and flower heads in an offset repeat) design printed on off-white. Silk dress goods. Some of the dyes appear to have faded. The floral is pink and green and yellow on an off-white ground.
label: Description
content: Henry Doherty and Joseph Wadsworth came to Paterson, New Jersey from England and began working together in 1879. They rented space in other mills until 1882 when they purchased their own mill in Paterson, NJ, the premier silk manufacturing location in the United States at the time. In 1910 the firm, then Paterson's largest silk manufacturer, opened new mills in Allentown, and Wilkes-Barre, PA.. By 1938, the silk mills had closed down due to pressure from the Great Depression, changes in the wholesaling of textiles, and labor issues.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
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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: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Doherty & Wadsworth Co
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01330.000
label: accession number
content: 56856
label: catalog number
content: T01330.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
label: Object Name
content: Fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: Off-white ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: "Mikado crepe" (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 31 in; 17.78 cm x 78.74 cm