"Lizeron" dress silk, A "Martine" design by Duplan
date: label: date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Duplan Silk Corporation
label: designer
content: Poiret, Paul
notes: label: Description
content: A "Martine" silk by the Duplan Silk Company of Hazleton, PA. This design titled "Lizeron", on charmeuse, a lightweight satin weave silk. Printed design of stylized leaves and flowers in green, yellow with off white on a black ground. This example was hand block-printed. Duplan's publicity touts this series of silk dress fabrics as "Woven, printed, and finished in the US, sold and delivered in Paris and London. Designs by the Martine School of Decorative Art, Paris, France. Directed, owned, and personally supervised by Mr. Paul Poiret, who is universally acknowledged as the greatest creator of women's fashions of the present century." In the press these were called "Futurist Flowers", and there were supposedly 8 designs in total that Duplan licensed from Poiret. The NMAH Textiles collection holds six samples, four designs, two designs in two colorways on two different ground cloths. Duplan publicity also says that "Lizeron" was, "so far as we know, the first hand block design ever printed by hand in the United States, on a heavy quality of silks. The yardage possible to produce per day, printed by hand by one man, in a design of the character, is only about 1/20th of what a silk printing machine can produce in the same length of time."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Hazleton
topic: label: web subject
content: Fashion
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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: Duplan Silk Co.
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Duplan Silk Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01223
label: accession number
content: 56671
label: catalog number
content: T01223.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: black ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: satin weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: hand block printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm