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". Lightweight silk compound satin weave with a weft float pattern of abstract swirls and whorls (almost wood-grain-like) . Printed floral design of small scattered sprigs of various sizes in blues and pinks with green leaves and brown stems.. "Champagne" (pinkish-beige) ground. (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. There is a page from a Cheney sample book with swatches of two additional colorways of this pattern in the study card file.
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.T00057
label: catalog number
content: T00057.000
label: accession number
content: 55080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress silk
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: floral (overall pattern)
label: Physical Description
content: champagne (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue, pink (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: compound satin weave, cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 24 in; 91.44 cm x 60.96 cm