Printed furnishing fabric; prancing horse design; 1945-55
date: label: date made
content: 1947 - 1960
notes: label: Description
content: Length of printed cotton/rayon sateen twill furnishing fabric with design of prancing and running horses in shades of green. 1950s, perhaps late 1940s. The design is reminiscent of post World War II English chintz designs, but this ground cloth is similar to many post-war American fabrications. 75” L x 51” W. 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. Selvage width. no selvage inscriptions. 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
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: 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: 2016.0213.08
label: accession number
content: 2016.0213
label: catalog number
content: 2016.213.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: textile length
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton, rayon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sateen weave; screen-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 75 in x 51 in; 190.5 cm x 129.54 cm