"Grand Canyon" (allover) on velvet, Mallinson's National Parks series
"Grand Canyon" (allover) on velvet, Mallinson's National Parks series
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- Description
- A length of very light soft pliable velvet (printed butterfly velvet), having a silk ground and rayon pile. Printed with Mallinson's National Park series Grand Canyon allover design on a black background. Rayon pile on a silk chiffon or georgette ground cloth was generically termed 'transparent velvet' in the 1920s and 1930s. 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, and represented all the usual styles necesssary for making clothing: allover prints, horizontal stripes, checks, a border design,etc. The firm also donated an example of this design printed on a flat surface silk, and an example of the Grand Canyon border design.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Fabric Length
- Date made
- 1927
- maker
- H R Mallinson and Company, Incorporated
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Associated Place
- United States: Arizona, Grand Canyon
- Physical Description
- ground, silk (overall material)
- pile, rayon (overall material)
- black (overall color)
- transparent velvet (overall style)
- warp pile weave (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm
- ID Number
- TE.T05584
- accession number
- 95522
- catalog number
- T05584.000
- 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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