H.R. Mallinson's Snakeskin design "Slendora Brocade"
date: label: date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A sample piece of H.R. Mallinson's "Slendora Brocade" in a cross-dyed pinkish-brown and green jacquard-woven snakeskin design.The cross-dyed (a form of resist-dyeing) "Slendora Brocade" was Jacquard woven in rayon for the weft figure; contrasting with the silk ground. There were two dyes are in the same bath, and each fiber resists the dye meant for the other fiber for which it has no chemical affinity, thereby enabling a two color effect in one operation. The selvage inscription on this textile length (Mallinson's Fabrics De Luxe) is the one Mallinson used for its products that were not all-silk after an early 1920s 'truth-in-advertising' furor over silk manufacturers using rayon (then artificial silk) in their products without informing consumers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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.T05758.D
label: catalog number
content: T05758.00D
label: accession number
content: 101284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: jacquard-woven; piece-dyed; cross-dyed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: Slendora brocade (overall style)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 in; 99.06 cm