"Old Sampler - Paul Revere" dress silk, Mallinson's Early American series
date: label: Date made
content: 1929
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Length of "Pussy Willow", Mallinson trade name for a fine, soft, radium-like, plain weave fabric (mfr #1900). Printed with an allover pattern (mfr #2763), "Old Sampler--Paul Revere," reproducing, in a cross-stitch effect, the alphabets, numerals, and embroidery patterns stitched on samplers, as well as incidents from the Longfellow poem, "Paul Revere's Ride", such as hanging lanterns in the church tower, and scenes of colonial life such as ploughing fields. Text excerpts from the poem also appear in the design. Light brown ground. Selvage width, selvage inscription. Judging from drawings by free-lance textile designer Walter Mitschke in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Mitschke designed this print and several others in the Early American series.
label: Description
content: Mallinson's 1929 "Early American" series of printed dress silks was based on historical events and figures that were perceived at the time to consitute a shared American story. It was the last of the company's line of designs based on American themes in which each design was printed in at least seven colors, in several colorways, on three or four different ground cloths. The stock market crash and economic depression that followed made the investment in this kind of design unprofitable.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: related event
content: Paul Revere's Ride
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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: Mallinson's Early American
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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.T05936
label: catalog number
content: T5936
label: accession number
content: 104252
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 39 1/2 in; 91.44 cm x 100.33 cm