Original design for printed Cheney Brothers Florentine Silk, 1916
date: label: date made
content: 1916
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Original colored design for fabric #T2834 showing 4 color variations. 5 specimens. 9.5" x 12.5" Design for a printed Florentine silk. In addition to the silk sample and original design, this set includes the enlarged design for the pantograph plates and the zinc plates, T2832 and T2833.
label: Description
content: Original colored dark blue, dark green, pink and orange floral design for a printed Florentine silk. The design stapled and partially adhered to sheet of paper below, which is stapled to another, similar, piece of paper below that. "For printing on 32" cloth January 27/14" written in pencil on the top of the lowermost sheet of paper, near the left corner. "#1176" written in pencil near the top of the lowermost sheet of paper. Written on the pencil on bottom of the middle sheet of paper appears to be a color list: "1- Black 2- Brown 3- Blue 7- Stone 4- Pink 5- [undecipherable] 8- Olive 6- Blotch". "T" written in pencil on the top left corner of the verso above a stamped "2831"in black ink. Another "2831" stamped in black ink below that. "#3833" among other pencil writings near the top left corner of the verso.
label: Description
content: The design has irregular rectangular blocks of 'craquelure' effect in the background, with floral motifs on long stems with spearlike leaves, and fringed petalls - iris-like?
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
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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.T02831.000
label: catalog number
content: T2831
label: accession number
content: 59368
objectType: label: Object Name
content: design, painted
label: Object Name
content: textile design