Cheney Brothers "Chiffon Taffeta" dress silk, 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Length of Cheney Brothers "Chiffon Taffeta" dress silk, 1913. Lightweight plain weave, yarn dyed. Red weft and blue warp to give overall purple-red-blue changeable color effect. Trade name: chiffon taffeta. (W. 36 in., L. 1-1/2 yd.) The sample was folded along several vertical creases, accelerating severe shattering into six 6"x 36" strips along those lines. The shattering suggests this was not a pure-dye but a weighted silk.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
label: made at
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Textiles
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.T00042
label: catalog number
content: T00042.000
label: accession number
content: 55080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress silk
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue, red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, yarn-dyed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 in x 36 in; 137.16 cm x 91.44 cm