"Pekin" dress silk, A "Martine" design by Duplan
date: label: date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Duplan Silk Corporation
label: designer
content: Poiret, Paul
notes: label: Description
content: A "Martine" silk by the Duplan Silk Company of Hazleton, PA. This design titled "Pekin", on quality "Crepe Chinois", a lightweight plain weave silk with slubbed weft yarns like a shantung. Printed design of wide and narrow irregular stripes in brown, blue, olive green, and orange. This example was cylinder printed. Duplan's publicity touts this series of silk dress fabrics as "Woven, printed, and finished in the US, sold and delivered in Paris and London. Designs by the Martine School of Decorative Art, Paris, France. Directed, owned, and personally supervised by Mr. Paul Poiret, who is universally acknowledged as the greatest creator of women's fashions of the present century." In the press these were called "Futurist Flowers", and there were supposedly 8 designs in total that Duplan licensed from Poiret. The NMAH Textiles collection holds six samples, four designs, two designs in two colorways on two different ground cloths.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Hazleton
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: Fashion
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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: Duplan Silk Co.
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Duplan Silk Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01220
label: accession number
content: 56671
label: catalog number
content: T01220.000
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physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
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content: orange (overall color)
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content: blue (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: brown (overall color)
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content: red (overall color)
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content: plain weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 42 in; 91.44 cm x 106.68 cm