"Old Sampler - Paul Revere" dress silk, Mallinson's Early American series
"Old Sampler - Paul Revere" dress silk, Mallinson's Early American series
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- Description
- Length of "Pussy Willow", Mallinson trade name for a fine, soft, radium-like, plain weave fabric (mfr #1900). Printed with an allover pattern (mfr #2763), "Old Sampler--Paul Revere," reproducing, in a cross-stitch effect, the alphabets, numerals, and embroidery patterns stitched on samplers, as well as incidents from the Longfellow poem, "Paul Revere's Ride", such as hanging lanterns in the church tower, and scenes of colonial life such as ploughing fields. Text excerpts from the poem also appear in the design. Light brown ground. Selvage width, selvage inscription. Judging from drawings by free-lance textile designer Walter Mitschke in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Mitschke designed this print and several others in the Early American series.
- Mallinson's 1929 "Early American" series of printed dress silks was based on historical events and figures that were perceived at the time to consitute a shared American story. It was the last of the company's line of designs based on American themes in which each design was printed in at least seven colors, in several colorways, on three or four different ground cloths. The stock market crash and economic depression that followed made the investment in this kind of design unprofitable.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Fabric, Printed
- fabric length
- Date made
- 1929
- maker
- H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- silk (overall material)
- plain weave; cylinder-printed (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 36 in x 39 1/2 in; 91.44 cm x 100.33 cm
- ID Number
- TE.T05936
- catalog number
- T5936
- accession number
- 104252
- Credit Line
- Gift of H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc.
- Paul Revere's Ride
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- American Silks
- American Silk Industry
- Migel-Mallinson Silks
- Mallinson's Early American
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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