H.R. Mallinson & Co.'s Aster design "Orchid Tissue Velvet"
date: label: Date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: H R Mallinson and Company, Incorporated
label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of printed rayon pile, silk ground transparent velvet fabric: Mallinson's "Orchid Tissue Velvet": Sheer plain weave silk ground with double-woven rayon pile.. Discharge printed in an allover, dense floral effect, of aster heads in greens on a white ground. The mfr # for the fabric is #832; the mfr # for the design is #2689. Transparent velvet was introduced in the 1920s as a marketing name for solid cut pile on a sheer ground, usually a rayon pile and silk ground, giving the fabric a very soft hand.. The manufacturer's description of the process is: "The fabric is piece-dyed for discharge (meaning with a special dye) in a ground color, and the pile made to lie in one direction. The fabric is then run through the printing machine where the pattern is printed on the pile surface, which is afterward erected and finished. With the colors put on in the printing process is mixed a discharge chemical which removes or bleaches the ground color where it is not wanted in the pattern."
label: Description
content: H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc. was known in the silk industry for innovation in both design and technology.
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.T05754.B
label: accession number
content: 101284
label: catalog number
content: T05754.00B
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 5754 (/) B
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rayon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: transparent velvet (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: double woven pile (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm