J.A. Migel, Inc. "Fan-Ta-Si" dress fabric sample; 1918
date: label: Date made
content: 1918
notes: label: Description
content: A length of J.A. Migel, Inc. silk dress goods "1920 Fan-Ta-Si". Cross dyed satin face, novelty fabric having silk warp and artificial silk filling, with an allover jacquard pattern. Designed primarily for a sport silk. Manufacturer's name for color "Sunset." Fan-Ta-Si was one of the fabric names trademarked by JA Migel Inc. Julius A. Migel was a younger brother of Moses Charles Migel, founder of M.C. Migel & Co., Inc, silk manufacturer, renamed H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc. in 1915. Mallinson, married to Linda Migel, had taken over as the president of M.C. Migel & Co. after his brother-in-law had retired. J.A. Migel was very briefly a partner with H.R. Mallinson, but left the firm in 1915 to form his own, eponymous, silk manufacturing concern. J.A. Migel used many of the marketing tools that his brother and H.R. Mallinson had succeeded with, but his company lasted only a few years.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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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
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content: JA Migel Fabrics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J.A. Migel, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T04148
label: accession number
content: 64199
label: catalog number
content: T04148.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
label: Object Name
content: Fabric Sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: warp, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, artificial silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: orange (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: compound jacquard weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 in x 38 in; 78.74 cm x 96.52 cm