A.H. Straus & Co. 'Luxor Taffeta' dress silk, Persian roundel design; 1917.
date: label: date made
content: 1917
name: label: maker
content: A H Straus and Company
notes: label: Description
content: A. H. Straus & Co.printed taffeta dress silk length; 1917. Canary yellow ground, Persian-inspired roundel design. "Luxor Taffeta" made by A. H. Straus & Co. Commericially known as "Sasanidian-Web", a lustrous, reversible fabric with a discharge-printed Persian design of patterned disks taken from a costume of 6th and 8th centuries. Original in Milan. Colors: blue, green, black and purple on canary yellow ground. Some variation between purples and pinks in the printing, some are lighter colored than others. Print is of medallions made of three concentric circles of print beginning with multi colored blocks, then a ring of paisley, then a black geometric print. The circles are 3.75 inches in diameter. Printing not perfectly exact, some bleeding and blurred lines. Print is continued onto the selvedge which is the same color as the ground and is 0.125 inches wide. May have been inspired by the same Persian fabric as TE.T2549A.
label: Description
content: A. H. Straus and Co. was active in the 1910s and 1920s. The company was based in New York City and was a premier importer and manufacturer of printed silks. Many fabric lengths in this collection have prints copied from ancient textiles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of A H Straus and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T2549B
label: catalog number
content: T2549B
label: catalog number
content: T (/) 2549B
label: accession number
content: 61633
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
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content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: taffeta (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: canary ground (b) (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 41 in; 91.44 cm x 104.14 cm