"Barre Ratta" silk suiting
date: label: date made
content: 1915
name: label: maker
content: Victory Silk Company
notes: label: Description
content: Length of silk suiting: tradename "Barre Ratta". An all silk fabric having a coarse knotty appearance produced by a plain yarn warp and a novelty yarn filling. Originated by John G. Bentley, for men's wear.. Victory Silk Co., Paterson, NJ, 1915.
label: Description
content: The weft yarns are plied with short and long strands of silk fiber of uneven diameter, creating the highly textured surface effect. The tradename Barre Ratta is probably a take-off on the traditional fabrication, barathea, originally a wool and silk textile with a broken twill weave giving a pebbled texture.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Paterson
topic: label: Subject
content: World War I
label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Victory Silk Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T02761.A-B
label: accession number
content: 58809
label: catalog number
content: T02761.A-B
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: natural (a) (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (b) (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; novelty yarn (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 36 in; 91.44 cm x 91.44 cm