Cheney Brothers "Printed Satin Brocade", 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Length of Cheney Brothers "Printed Satin Brocade". All-silk. The ground is jacquard woven with a repeating s-curve swirling figure. It is over-printed with a dense ground pattern of light blue lines with a delicate flowering branch design on top of that.. Construction; Compound satin weave, weft float patterning. The ground is a pinkish-beige ("champagne"). Printed design is light blue, with flowers in pink, yellow. brown, green, turquoise blue. Cheney Silks retail label attached with glue or adhesive. (W. 24 in., L. 36 in.) This is not an actual brocade, in the technical meaning of discontinuous weft patterning. It is a jacquard-woven figure, with weft-float patterning against the satin weave ground. This fabric, called "Jouy Broche" by the company, is woven at 24" wide.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
label: made at
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: 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.T00056
label: catalog number
content: T00056.000
label: accession number
content: 55080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress silk
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: champagne (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pink, yellow, brown, green, blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: compound satin weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: floral (overall pattern)
label: Physical Description
content: figured charmeuse satin (overall style)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 24 in; 91.44 cm x 60.96 cm