Cheney Brothers Furnishing "Brocade", 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Length of Cheney Brothers Furnishing "Brocade", 1913. Medium weight, fairly stiff, jacquard-woven fabric with several supplementary weft yarns, in different colors, tied in plain weave into the ground, forming bands of color on the reverse and weft float patterning on the face. The warp yarns are spun silk, cotton, and twisted spun silk; the weft yarns are tussah (wild) silk and cotton. Revival styling, Rococo into Neo-classical transition period, combining floral meanders with supplementary warp-float stripes. Meandering roses in pinks, and white and green flowering vines on a pale green ground striped with golden yellow. (W. 50 in., L. 36 in.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cheney Brothers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00100.000
label: catalog number
content: T00100.000
label: accession number
content: 55080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: furnishing fabric
label: Object Name
content: jacquard silk
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: compound weave, Jacquard-woven, supplementary warp and weft float patterning (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: gold; green; pinks; white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 50 in; 91.44 cm x 127 cm