"Garden of the Gods" colorways (3), Mallinson's National Park series
date: label: Date made
content: 1927
name: label: maker
content: H R Mallinson and Company, Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: Three sample lengths of printed "Khaki Kool," Mallinson tradename for a rough finish sport silk: Rough surface crepe fabric woven with warp of tussah silk and weft of tussah loosely twisted with a silk crepe yarn. Selvage width; selvage inscription. Printed with National Park series "Garden of the Gods" design; in three different color combinations (on grounds of white, orange, and mauve). In late 1926 American silk manufacturer H. R. Mallinson & Co. introduced a bold new line of printed silks, twelve landscape designs, each available in from eight to twelve colorways (color combinations) on three different ground fabrics. The designs celebrated America's National Parks - then only a decade old. The designs represented all the usual styles necesssary for making clothing: allover prints, horizontal stripes, checks, a border design, etc. These samples illustrate how strikingly different a single design can appear by changing the colors of the ground and design elements.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: web subject
content: National Parks
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Mallinson's National Parks
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T05587A
label: catalog number
content: T5587A
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 5587 (/) A
label: accession number
content: 95522
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gray ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 39 1/2 in; 91.44 cm x 100.33 cm