A length of printed Pussy Willow silk. Pussy Willow was the H.R. Mallinson & Co. trade name for a soft drapey plain weave fabric Manufacturer's numbers: #900/2322/4. Design by Helen Tee-Van of kelp from one of her original sketches - under-water studies of the dense Sargasso seaweed beds -- Van was an artist on board the Steam Yacht Arcturus on the New York Zoological Society's 1925 Expedition under Capt. Wm. Beebe to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands. Colorway: medium blue ground with design of waving and overlapping seaweed fronds in yellow, white, dull orange, black, and light blue.