Cheney Brothers Printed "Sweetbriar" silk, "Egyptian Stripe" design, 1917
date: label: date made
content: 1917
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: A length of Cheney Brothers printed "Sweetbriar" tradename silk. Lightweight, plain weave fabric. Design No 78364, "Egyptian Stripe". Color No. 6072/6. The design features vertical stripes, alternating rows of stylized cartouches with hieroglyphics, with bands of scenes from Ancient Egyptian wall paintings separated by architectural elements, flanked by narrow stripes made up of small squares. Colors; green, rose, blue, white, and black. (W. 30 in., L. 36 in.). The limited and somewhat subdued color palette of the 1917 silks may represent the state of the American Dye industry at this stage of World War I, when it was struggling to develop independently of German dye technology.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
label: sold
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cheney Brothers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T3663
label: accession number
content: 60888
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
label: Object Name
content: printed silk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
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content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 30 in; 91.44 cm x 76.2 cm