Stern and Pohly "Roman Plisse Epingle" apparel silk; 1914.
date: label: Date made
content: 1914
notes: label: Description
content: Stern and Pohly "Roman Plisse Epingle" silk fabric length; 1914. Trimming silk. Warp-faced rib weave with a crepe-like finish, with silk warp, silk and irregular flake cotton filling (weft). Woven on Knowles box loom. Adaptable for vestings, sashes and coat and jacket trimmings. Narrow stripes in several colors between wider blue and red stripes.
label: Description
content: Harry Stern and Joseph Pohly began business in the Cooke Mill in Paterson, NJ in 1897. They erected the Highland Mill, also in Paterson, in 1902, manufacturing novelty silks. In 1914, the company moved their sales offices to Fourth Street in the Garment District, in response to the change in the customer base from the retail market to the wholesale market, with the growth of ready-to-wear clothing for women. The company was sold in 1916 to the Durable Silk Corporation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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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: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Stern and Pohly
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01835.000
label: catalog number
content: T01835.000
label: accession number
content: 57064
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: warp, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: weft, silk and flake cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: "roman plisse epingle" (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: Box loom woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 22 in; 91.44 cm x 55.88 cm