Marshall Field & Co., "Town & Country" surface printed cretonne, 1922 (framed)
date: label: date made
content: 1922
name: label: maker
content: Marshall Field and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Marshall Field & Co.; one of a series of samples from the company's Colonial Drapery Dept. Chicago, Illinois; "Town & Country" surface printed cretonne, 1922 (framed). A sample of a cotton cretonne furnishing fabric, surface-printed with a design of large scale flowers, leafy stems, and birds. Town & Country, 1922. Colors: pinks, reds, tans, greens on an off white ground. Framed in a dark brown wooden "Colonial" frame with broken-pediment top and turned column sides.
label: Description
content: Original cataloging states that this is "Believed to be the first cretonne printed in the US by the surface printing process; the rollers being of wood and the design outlined with brass and filled with feltfor the printing surface. It was printed in 1922 on what is believed to be the first machine of the kind brought to America shortly before this date. This method of printing is much the same as if done from flat wooden blocks by hand, except that these blocks are cylindrical and run on a machine considerably more slowly than is the case with the ordinary coper roller printing machine. But it produces an effect not possible in any other way because each repeated impression of any one part of the design seems to change more or less in the varied shading of the color, so that while each design repeat is to some extent the same, it is never exactly the same as a printing from an etched copper rolle would be."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marshall Field & Company, Colonial Drapery Dept.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T06069.000
label: catalog number
content: T06069.000
label: accession number
content: 108317
label: catalog number
content: T6069
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Cretonne, Printed
label: Object Name
content: sample, textile, framed
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample, cretonne
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: surface printed (overall production method/technique)