H.R. Mallinson & Co. screen-printed silk shawl
date: label: date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A floral design screen-printed silk crepe shawl, from H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc. Made from an all silk, medium weight crepe fabric; ornamented with a screen-printed design engineered to display best across a diagonally folded shawl; of a large floral motif, developed in black on a white ground with 2 band borders outlining the shawl, the inner band red and the outer band black. Manufacturer's numbers: fabric quality: #4571; pattern: # 5215; color: #15. One of a group of five screen-printed silk crepe shawls given by the Mallinson firm in 1928 to illustrate their early use of this new printing technique in industrial production.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
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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: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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content: Textiles
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.T05761
label: catalog number
content: T05761.000
label: accession number
content: 101284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shawl, Printed
label: Object Name
content: shawl
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; screen-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 56 in x 60 in; 142.24 cm x 152.4 cm