Doherty & Wadsworth Co. printed "Mikado Crepe" dress silk length; 1914.
date: label: Date made
content: 1914
notes: label: Description
content: Doherty & Wadsworth Co Printed Mikado Silk Crepe fabric length; 1914. Silk Dress goods "Printed Mikado Crepe" with significant fading of color and print. Originally ground was pink, this has faded. "Pompadour design" of detached sprigs and sprays of flowers. Pinked edges.
label: Description
content: Henry Doherty and Joseph Wadsworth came to Paterson, New Jersey from England and began working together in 1879. They rented small spaces in mills until 1882 when they were able to purchase a mill and began weaving grenadines. Paterson, NJ was the premier silk manufacturing location in the United States at the time. Doherty and Wadsworth was Paterson's largest silk manufacturers when they went to Allentown in 1910 to set up more mills. The president of the company, Henry Doherty, in 1913 automated his looms so that one worker could operate four looms at a time instead of just two. They also had silk mills in Wilkes-Barre. By 1938, the silk mills had closed down due to pressure from the Great Depression and changes in whoesaling textiles, and strikes by workers demanding higher wages.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Paterson
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
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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 Doherty & Wadsworth Co
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01331.000
label: accession number
content: 56856
label: catalog number
content: T01331.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pink ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: "Mikado crepe" (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 42 in; 91.44 cm x 106.68 cm