Stewart Silk Co Blue Crepe de Chine Fabric sample; 1914
date: label: Date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Stewart Silk Company
notes: label: Description
content: Stewart Silk Co Blue Crepe de Chine Fabric sample. Two edges are pinked, one side includes the selvedge, and the other is frayed. One metal staple on one edge with remainder of paper tag, no writing. Blue color. Some staining, perhaps from light exposure, and some fold creases.
label: Description
content: John Wood Stewart was born in 1856 in New York City. In 1897 he acquired an interest in the Phillipsburg Silk Mill Company, which he later took over, expanding into South Easton, Pennsylvania, with a new mill and the addition of the Eastern Throwing Company, a throwing mill. The Perfect Dyeing and Finishing Company was also shortly added, and these three eventually incorporated to create the Stewart Silk Company. The company's mills were in Pennsylvania, the sales offices in New York City. John Stewart died in 1922. Commercial Factors Company purchased the Stewart Silk Mills in 1930.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Easton
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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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 Stewart Silk Co
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01298.000
label: accession number
content: 56748
label: catalog number
content: T01298.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
label: Object Name
content: Fabric Sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: crepe de chine (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 38 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 97.79 cm