Cheney Brothers silk 'Scarf' ribbon, 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: A length of Cheney Brothers silk ribbon in dark blue; the face is corded (vertical ribs) reverse is black. Stiff finish. 3 1/2" wide. Called a "scarf ribbon" in the original cataloging. Cheney Brothers was one of the earliest and perhaps the longest-lived of all American silk textile manufacturing companies. Its mill complex was a vertical operation which employed much of the population of South Manchester, Connecticut, for decades.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
setName: label: See more items in
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.T01015.000
label: catalog number
content: T01015.000
label: accession number
content: 56298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ribbon
label: Object Type
content: ribbon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: weft-faced rib weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm