J.A. Migel, Inc.' "Fan-Ta-Si" novelty crepe dress fabric; 1918
date: label: Date made
content: 1918
notes: label: Description
content: A length of J.A. Migel, Inc .silk and artificial silk dress goods "Fan-Ta-Si". Novelty crepe woven with a metallic like surface effect created by narrow warpwise irregular stripes of yellow threads. Woven with a silk warp and double filling: one of tightly twisted silk, the other of artificial silk singles. The length has significant discoloration throughout the wrong side that features light yellow or pink striped splotches instead of the dark salmon color. Julius A. Migel was a younger brother of Moses Charles Migel, founder of M.C. Migel & Co., Inc, silk manufacturer, renamed H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc. in 1915. Mallinson, married to Linda Migel, had taken over as the president of M.C. Migel & Co. after his brother-in-law had retired. J.A. Migel was very briefly a partner with H.R. Mallinson, but left the firm in 1915 to form his own, eponymous, silk manufacturing concern. J.A. Migel used many of the marketing tools that his brother and H.R. Mallinson had succeeded with, but his company lasted only a few years.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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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: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
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content: JA Migel Fabrics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J.A. Migel, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T03843.000
label: accession number
content: 62138
label: catalog number
content: T03843.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: warp, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, artificial silk (one fiber) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, twisted silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: salmon (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: novelty weave; crepe (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm