Cheney Brothers Novelty Velvet, "Fancy Velours Chiffon",1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Length of Cheney Brothers Novelty Velvet, "Fancy Velours Chiffon",1913. A medium weight silk novelty velvet. Horizontal lines of cut pile in black, voided to rows of blue ground in between. At intervals there are bands of lines with more distance between the pile lines, and more blue showing through.Black pile on blue ground Construction; pile weave, cut velvet. Yarns - all silk: warp – black, weft – blue, pile – black. (W. 42 in., L. 1 yard.) [NB: The linked image is the correct one, it just has a brown cast, instead of black.] Blue selvage. A swatch card in the study file with this sample describes it as "Used for dress goods. Spun silk pile, silk back, yarn dyed."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
label: made at
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: 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.T00090
label: catalog number
content: T00090.000
label: accession number
content: 55080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: velvet
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
label: Object Name
content: dress silk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pile weave, cut pile, voided (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 42 in; 91.44 cm x 106.68 cm