"Bryce Canyon, Utah" dress silk, Mallinson's National Park series
Object Details
- H. R. Mallinson & Co. Inc.
- Description
- 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. This striking design depicts the Wall of Windows at Bryce Canyon (Utah) National Park, printed on Mallinson's.Indestructible chiffon voile, a sheer, plain weave silk. 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 a few others in the National Parks series..
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc.
- 1927
- ID Number
- TE.T05575
- accession number
- 95522
- catalog number
- T5575
- Object Name
- Fabric Length
- Physical Description
- silk (overall material)
- oranges (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- plain weave (overall production method/technique)
- cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 36 in x 40 in; 91.44 cm x 101.6 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- depicted
- United States: Utah, Bryce Canyon
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- American Silks
- Mallinson's National Parks
- American Silk Industry
- Migel-Mallinson Silks
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- National Parks
- Record ID
- nmah_1166581
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-f7b1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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