"Flying Fish" chiffon velvet; Mallinson's "Beebe expedition" print series
date: label: Date made
content: 1926
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of printed H.R. Mallinson trade name Indestructible Chiffon Velvet. This important 1920s fabric innovation is a very light, soft and pliable velvet with a rayon pile warp and a ground warp and weft of silk. This particular fabric quality was sometimes known as 'transparent velvet', because the ground weave was open and the rayon pile very light. This design is called "Flying Fish" and depicts an array of flying fish against a ground of water droplets/ocean spray from an original sketch made by artist Helen Tee-Van on board the Steam Yacht Arcturus on the New York Zoological Society's 1925 Expedition under Capt. Wm. Beebe to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands. The design is the same as on T05453. Manufacturer's numbers:. fabric quality 831/ pattern 2318/ color 7. Colorway: blue-gray ground with orange, tans, white and black.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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.T05463
label: accession number
content: 92859
label: catalog number
content: T05463.000
label: catalog number
content: T5463
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 5463
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content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
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content: rayon (overall material)
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content: brown (overall color)
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content: blue (overall color)
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content: gold (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: gray ground (overall color)
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content: chiffon velvet (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: pile woven; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 39 1/2 in; 91.44 cm x 100.33 cm