T. H. McCool & Co. Airograph-printed dress silk; 1914.
date: label: Date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: T. H. McCool and Company
notes: label: Description
content: T. H. McCool & Co. crepe de chine silk fabric length; 1914. "Airograph printed" crepe de chine. An all over floral design in six colors on a white ground. Airograph (the name used for air-brushing, or spray printing) work by The Decorus Manufacturing Company. Floral print has a 10.5 inch repeat and the individual floral motifs are 3.5 inches wide. Cream color ground with pink and blue flowers with green leaves and black outline.
label: Description
content: T. H. McCool and Company is the successor firm, as of 1914, to Alfred K. Wright and Company; both companies factored by Passavant & Co. McCool had been connected with the Wright company for many years. This donation encompassed examples of "airograph work" on various silks, said to be akin to products coming from Lyons, France. The airograph, or spray-print, or airbrushing, process was done by Decorous Manufacturing & Co of New York City. Acording to the Annual report on this donation, the machine used to create these designs was the first machine of its kind to be imported to the United States, and it was a gift.
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 T. H. McCool & Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T02163.000
label: accession number
content: 57669
label: catalog number
content: T02163.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: multi color (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: White ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: crepe de chine (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; airograph-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 39 in; 91.44 cm x 99.06 cm