Cheney Brothers Printed Silk Pongee "Florentine", 1915
date: label: date made
content: 1915
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Cheney Brothers printed silk pongee "Florentine", 1915. A lightweight, spun silk filled pongee, printed with a dense, allover patchwork-look, garden-inspired pattern of various geometric and floral filled irregular reserves - and the letter W - in blue, white, red, green and brown outlined in black. (W. 32 in., L. 36 in.) Made as a decorative or furnishing fabric. "The company's description of this textiles as "Florentine" may have referred to the fabric quality and not the pattern name.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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.T02638.000
label: catalog number
content: T02638.000
label: accession number
content: 58458
objectType: label: Object Name
content: printed silk
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk, spun silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: black; blue; brown; green; white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 32 in; 91.44 cm x 81.28 cm