Solid coordinate; Mallinson's Playgrounds of the World series
date: label: Date made
content: 1928
name: label: manufacturer
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A sample strip of piece dyed fabric "Pussy Willow Silk". Solid color coordinate to Mallinson's Playgrounds of the World series of printed dress silks. Pussy Willow was one of the Mallinson firm's longest lasting and most popular trade name fabric qualities. It is a fine. soft,plain weave fabric of a type known at the time as " radium". Pussy Willow was guranteed to be pure-dye and tub-fast, or washable without losing color. This is the "old ivory" (off white) sample, one of 6 solid color samples of Pussy Willow that coordinate with the print designs for the Playgrounds of the World series.
label: Description
content: 6 samples - Grey #124; green #906; beige #4889;(2 pieces); straw #6133; old ivory #10511
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: 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.T05731.D
label: accession number
content: 101284
label: catalog number
content: T05731.00D
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: old ivory (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: Pussy Willow (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; piece-dyed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 40 in; 15.24 cm x 101.6 cm