A H Straus & Co 'Luxor Taffeta' dress silk, Renaissance design; 1917.
date: label: Date made
content: 1917
notes: label: Description
content: A H Straus & Co 'Luxor Taffeta' dress silk, Renaissance design; 1917. Luxor taffeta made by A H Straus and Company. A lustrous, reversible fabric with a discharge printed, "composite design of the old French School. Example of textile industry of the 14th and 15th centuries." Stripes of faded dye throughout the length. Colors are green, yellow, and black on a 'lucifer' (dark bluish-red) ground. Stripes of alternating green pine cone and gold roundel motifs are separated from each other by 1.25 inches and are parallel to the selvedge edge. The ground is printed in two shades of 'lucifer' - with a palmette pomegranate ogee design taken from Renaiisance damasks and velvets. carefully situated between the more brightly colored stripes.
label: Description
content: A. H. Straus and Co. was active in the 1910s and 1920s. The company was based in New York City and was a premier importer and manufacturer of printed silks. Many fabric lengths in this collection have prints copied from ancient textiles.
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: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web object
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 A H Straus and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T02552.000
label: accession number
content: 61633
label: catalog number
content: T02552.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
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content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: dark red ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; discharge-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 41 in; 91.44 cm x 104.14 cm