"Niagara Falls" dress silk, Mallinson's National Park series
"Niagara Falls" dress silk, Mallinson's National Park series
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- Description
- A length of jacquard-patterned, over-printed Khaki Kool (H.R. Mallinson & Co. trade name). A rough surface jacquard figured crepe fabric woven with warp of tussah silk and weft of tussah loosely twisted with a silk crepe yarn. Printed with allover design depicting Niagara Falls in cool colors on a white ground. In late 1926 American silk manufacturer H.R. Mallinson & Co. introduced a bold new line of printed silks, twelve landscape designs, each available in from eight to twelve colorways (color combinations) on three different ground fabrics. The designs celebrated America's national parks - then only a decade old. The designs represented all the usual styles necesssary for making clothing: allover prints, horizontal stripes, checks, a border design, etc. The waterfalls, rainbows, and swirling waters of Niagara Falls are framed in a reserve of flowers and foliage.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Fabric Length
- Date made
- 1927
- maker
- H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- tussah silk (overall material)
- blue (overall color)
- ecru (overall color)
- jacquard weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 36 in x 36 in; 91.44 cm x 91.44 cm
- ID Number
- TE.T05578
- accession number
- 95522
- catalog number
- T05578.000
- Credit Line
- Gift of H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc.
- subject
- National Parks
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- American Silks
- Mallinson's National Parks
- American Silk Industry
- Migel-Mallinson Silks
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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