Cheney Brothers novelty stripe ribbon, 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Length of Cheney Brothers black, purple, and white novelty striped silk ribbon. Equal width stripes of black satin weave and purple corded silk (vertical rib) are separated by by narrow dotted white stripes.. Single faced. 4 1/2" wide. Cheney Brothers was one of the earliest and perhaps the longest-lived of all American silk textile manufacturing companies. Its mill complex was a vertical operation which employed much of the population of South Manchester, Connecticut, for decades.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
setName: label: See more items in
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.T01014.000
label: catalog number
content: T01014.000
label: accession number
content: 56298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ribbon
label: Object Type
content: ribbon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: compound float weave (overall production method/technique)