H. R. Mallinson's "Orchid Tissue Velvet" process sample
date: label: date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of H. R. Mallinson & Co.'s trade name "Orchid Tissue Velvet." This is a process sample, in the raw, partly cut, to illustrate the double woven velvet, with two ground cloths woven simultaneously, face to face, sharing a single rayon pile warp working between them and joining them, with 8/32 of an inch between them. As fast as this double cloth is woven, the pile warp is sliced through as the fabric comes off the loom by a knife attached to the loom, giving two separate lengths of velvet, each with a silk ground and a rayon pile measuring 4/32 of an inch.. The ground is an open mesh-like plain weave of Japan silk. The pile is rayon.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Queens, Long Island City
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
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.T05750
label: accession number
content: 101284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk; rayon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pile-woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 in; 99.06 cm