Waverly printed furnishing fabric, "Grandma's Kitchen"; 1960s-1980s
date: label: date made
content: 1960 - 1985
name: label: maker
content: Waverly
label: maker
content: Waverly. Division of F. Schumacher & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of Waverly printed furnishing fabric, "Grandma's Kitchen." A plain weave off white cotton fabric printed with kitchen-specific design of fruits, vegetables, jars, bottles, and kitchen implements in red, greens, browns, pink, yellow, light blue, and black. The length has both a selvage inscription (Waverly Bonded Fabric "Grandma's Kitchen Scotchguard finish) and a hang tag. Waverly was a division of F. Schumacher & Co. until 2007. The Waverly mill was in Paterson, New Jersey. The Waverly division originally marketed coordinating fabric, wallpaper, and rugs. This design may date anywhere from the 1960s into the early 1980s. One of 27 textile lengths dating from the 1950s into the 1980s, part of a collection owned by Seymour Rappoport, who owned two fabric stores himself, and whose father owned a silk-dyeing firm in Paterson, NJ. in the early 20th century. This collection illustrates the broad range of textiles, from around the world, that were available to and sought by home sewers and small businesses (such as dressmakers, tailors, and theatrical costume shops) that were avid patrons of fabric stores into the 1980s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marjorie and Seymour Rappoport
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0213.21
label: accession number
content: 2016.0213
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0213.21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; screen printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 56 in x 49 in; 142.24 cm x 124.46 cm