"Khaki Kool" solid coordinate, Mallinson's National Park series
date: label: Date made
content: 1927
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Two lengths of piece-dyed, solid collor Khaki-Kool (Mallinson trade name) silk fabric. One of H.R. Mallinson's most enduring fabric qualities, Khaki Kool was styled and named during World War I. It was one of the company's early "Sport silks" - meaning silk fabrics that were durable and comfortable enough for active wear. This filament silk and tussah (wild silk) crepe finish "Khaki Kool" has a rough surface somewhat similar in appearance to shantung, and woven with warp of tussah silk and weft of tussah loosely twisted with a silk crepe yarn. These two samples of piece-dyed solid color silk (one in ecru, one in pale green) coordinated with the print colors used in H.R. Mallinson's National Parks print series in 1926-27.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: web subject
content: National Parks
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Mallinson's National Parks
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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content: Textiles
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.T05577A
label: catalog number
content: T5577A
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 5577 (/) A
label: accession number
content: 95522
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ecru (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; piece-dyed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 36 in x 36 in; x 91.44 cm x 91.44 cm