"Seaweed" chiffon velvet; Mallinson's "Beebe expedition" print series
date: label: Date made
content: 1926
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of H.R. Mallinson & Co. printed and voided chiffon velvet. Sheer gauze-like fabric of silk with a rayon pile figure. The fabric is woven as a solid velvet with rayon pile and silk base. Discharge medium that will remove only the rayon pile is applied by a printing cylinder engraved with the design. This removes pile not needed for pattern, leaving a sheer ground. Fabric is then overprinted in usual way. This design of seaweeds, printed in black and browns on a background design of bubbles and seaweed fronds in velvet pile against a yellow chiffon ground, may have been taken from an original sketch made by artist Helen Tee-Van on board the Steam Yacht Arcturus on the New York Zoological Society's 1925 Expedition under Capt. Wm. Beebe to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands.
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.T05464
label: accession number
content: 92859
label: catalog number
content: T05464.000
label: catalog number
content: T5464
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 5464
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rayon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: yellows (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: chiffon velvet (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: pile woven; discharge printed; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 39 1/2 in; 91.44 cm x 100.33 cm