Untwisted length of silk filaments; 1816
date: label: date made
content: ca 1816
notes: label: Description
content: An untwisted length of naturally off white silk filaments, tied in a knot; noted as having been separated from a Philadelphia merchant's correspondence file; dated 1816. Approximate length 19 inches; couched to a card stock backing.
label: Description
content: Note that the book/manuscript dealer from whom the silk was purchased had separated it from the correspondence some years before and no longer remembered the merchant's name. The silk may have come from a Philadelphia area sericulturist, as the region had been involved in a modest way in raising sericulture and reeling silk from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0158.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0158
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0158.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: silk filament sample
label: Object Type
content: thread
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: spun (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in; 48.26 cm