"Grand Canyon" (allover) on velvet, Mallinson's National Parks series
date: label: Date made
content: 1927
name: label: maker
content: H R Mallinson and Company, Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: A length of very light soft pliable velvet (printed butterfly velvet), having a silk ground and rayon pile. Printed with Mallinson's National Park series Grand Canyon allover design on a black background. Rayon pile on a silk chiffon or georgette ground cloth was generically termed 'transparent velvet' in the 1920s and 1930s. In late 1926 American silk manufacturer H.R. Mallinson & Co. introduced a bold new line of printed silks, twelve landscape designs, each available in from eight to twelve colorways (color combinations) on three different ground fabrics. The designs celebrated America's National Parks - then only a decade old, and represented all the usual styles necesssary for making clothing: allover prints, horizontal stripes, checks, a border design,etc. The firm also donated an example of this design printed on a flat surface silk, and an example of the Grand Canyon border design.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Arizona, Grand Canyon
topic: label: web subject
content: National Parks
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Mallinson's National Parks
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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content: Textiles
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.T05584
label: accession number
content: 95522
label: catalog number
content: T5584
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ground, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pile, rayon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: transparent velvet (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: warp pile weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm