H.R. Mallinson & Co. screen-printed silk shawl
date: label: date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A floral-border design screen printed shawl of silk crepe by H. R. Mallinson & Co., Inc. Made of an all silk, medium weight crepe fabric, ornamented with a screen-printed floral pattern of various kinds of flowers developed in outline and solid black to form a deep border along one corner and one edge, continuing less elaborately along the other edge. The shawl is meant to be folded diagonally. An early use of screen-printing, used here because of the scale of the repeat, which could not be printed with the standard 15" cylinder. Manufacturer's numbers: fabric quality: #4571; pattern # 5215; color #100. One of a group of five shawls donated by the Mallinson firm to illustrate this early use of the screen-printing technique. This is the same design as TE*T05762, but in black and white. There is a partial Mallinson elephant trademark stamp in one corner. The shawl has been roll-hemmed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
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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: 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.T05760
label: catalog number
content: T05760.000
label: accession number
content: 101284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shawl, Printed
label: Object Name
content: shawl
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; screen-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 56 in x 60 in; 142.24 cm x 152.4 cm