Cheney Brothers Printed Silk Satin, "Cosmos", 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Length of Cheney Brothers printed silk satin, 1913. Naturalistically drawn Cosmos flower design; tossed layout. A lightweight silk satin, pigment-printed with a large-scale pattern of cosmos flowers with twining stems in pink, green, yellow, brown, and matte white on a pale yellow ground. Cheney description: "This is a decorative material used for the manufacture of kimonos, sofa cushions, bedspreads, lambrequins, etc." (W. 30 in., L. 36 in.) Color 3547-1; Com.: 4454; Lot 5304. Designed by Sophia Crownfield for Cheney Brothers. A second colorway on a pale blue ground is also in the collection: T00063.
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
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content: Cheney Brothers
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content: American Silk Industry
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.T01023.000
label: catalog number
content: T01023.000
label: accession number
content: 56298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: printed silk
label: Object Name
content: dress silk
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content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: satin weave, pigment-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pinks (range) (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: light gray (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: coral (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34 in x 29 1/2 in; 86.36 cm x 74.93 cm