Cheney Brothers Silk Upholstery Fabric "Brocatelle", 1925
date: label: date made
content: 1925
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Length of Cheney Brothers silk upholstery fabric. A Jacquard-woven, continuous weft patterned heavy fabric, having a spun silk warp and 9 shuttles of silk weft which float on the surface to create the pattern; with a linen ground weft. The design is a Venetian Baroque-inspired pattern of conventionalized flowers and urns within an ogee grid of scrolls, (#4540/3); Colors are green, blue, rose, gold, brown, lavender, on drab or dull beige ground. Wholesaled for $17 per yd. Retail tag with Cheney Silks logo stapled to corner of fabric length. (W. 50 in., L. 320 in.)
label: Description
content: These furnishing silks were, along with the patterned velvets, represent the most expensive and exclusive textiles that Cheney Brothers produced.
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
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.T05112.000
label: catalog number
content: T05112.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: furnishing fabric
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk; linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: shuttle woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: brown; blue; green; pink; yellow; grey (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 320 in x 50 in; 812.8 cm x 127 cm