Hand-painted dress sample; Mimosa Tree, Inc.; 1975
date: label: date made
content: 1975
name: label: maker
content: Mimosa Tree, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Hand-painted ("Free-hand Azaleas with Birds") dress sample; Mimosa Tree, Inc.; 1975. 100% DuPont Antron nylon fiber; Roselon Industries, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) knitted fabric, tradename "Nyesta". Woman's black knit dress; spaghetti straps; v-neck; empire waist; zipper at center back. Dress size 7/8. Hand-painted flowers and birds in yellow, pink, white, and green on skirt front (copyright design). Two original cardboard labels (Mimosa Tree Inc and Roselon Nyesta) are affixed to the cataloging worksheet in the Textiles Dept. accession folder.
label: Description
content: The company Mimosa Tree, Inc. was a firm producing hand-painted dresses; not a textile manufacturer. They submitted the hand painted design on this dress to the Library of Congress for copyright on Dec 17 1975.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0255.67
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0255.67
label: accession number
content: 1988.0255
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painted fabric, dress
label: Object Name
content: dress sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Antron nylon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: machine knitted; hand-painted (overall production method/technique)