Object Details
- Description
- Stewart Silk Co Blue Crepe de Chine Fabric sample. Two edges are pinked, one side includes the selvedge, and the other is frayed. One metal staple on one edge with remainder of paper tag, no writing. Blue color. Some staining, perhaps from light exposure, and some fold creases.
- John Wood Stewart was born in 1856 in New York City. In 1897 he acquired an interest in the Phillipsburg Silk Mill Company, which he later took over, expanding into South Easton, Pennsylvania, with a new mill and the addition of the Eastern Throwing Company, a throwing mill. The Perfect Dyeing and Finishing Company was also shortly added, and these three eventually incorporated to create the Stewart Silk Company. The company's mills were in Pennsylvania, the sales offices in New York City. John Stewart died in 1922. Commercial Factors Company purchased the Stewart Silk Mills in 1930.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Stewart Silk Company
- Date made
- 1914
- Credit Line
- Gift of Stewart Silk Co
- Physical Description
- silk (overall material)
- blue (overall color)
- crepe de chine (overall style)
- plain weave (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 in x 38 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 97.79 cm
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