“Frascati” design, a Schumacher Hand Print furnishing fabric
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: maker
content: F. Schumacher & Company
notes: label: Description
content: “Frascati” F. Schumacher & Co., Hand Print. 1950s. Off white plain weave cotton furnishing fabric with painterly design of Italianate garden, arches, and stuary. Gray, black, pink, light green. 45” L x 48” W.
label: Description
content: 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, New Jersey 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
setName: label: See more items in
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: 2016.0213.12A
label: accession number
content: 2016.0213
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0213.12A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
label: Object Name
content: textile length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; hand screen printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 in x 48 in; 114.3 cm x 121.92 cm