H.R. Mallinson's Snakeskin design "Slendora Brocade"
date: label: Date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of H.R. Mallinson's "Slendora Brocade" in a cross-dyed green and copper-colored jacquard patterned snakeskin design. The cross-dyed (a form of resist-dyeing) "Slendora Brocade" was Jacquard woven in copper colored rayon for the weft figure; contrasting with the green silk ground. The two dyes are in the same bath, and each fiber resists the dye meant for the other fiber (green-silk; copper-rayon) for which it has no chemical affinity, thereby enabling a two color effect in one operation. The selvage inscription on this textile length (Mallinson's Fabrics De Luxe) is the one Mallinson used for its products that were not all-silk after an early 1920s 'truth-in-advertising' furor over silk manufacturers using rayon (then artificial silk) in their products without informing consumers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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.T05758.F
label: accession number
content: 101284
label: catalog number
content: T05758.00F
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rayon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cross-dyed (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: jacquard-woven; piece dyed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 72 in x 40 in; 182.88 cm x 101.6 cm