Scarf, "Garden of the Gods" design, Mallinson's National Park series
date: label: Date made
content: 1927
name: label: maker
content: H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Scarf made of Mallinson's best known "Pussy Willow" trademarked plain weave silk fabric with printed design "Garden of the Gods: in red, yellow, tan, purple, gray, orange, black, etc. on a white ground. Stitched hem along the sides and finished at the ends with 12" rayon fringe in red. 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. In addition to sample lengths of each design, and samples of all the colorwaysand ground cloths of one of the designs, the firm also donated two scarves as examples of how the silks would look in use..
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.T05590
label: accession number
content: 95522
label: catalog number
content: T5590
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scarf
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk, rayon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
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content: yellow (overall color)
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content: purple (overall color)
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content: gray (overall color)
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content: orange (overall color)
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content: white ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: landscape (overall pattern)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 56 in x 19 in; 142.24 cm x 48.26 cm