Object Details
- Description
- Two skeins of White Japan Douppion silk, 40/50 drs. 1912.
- A. P. Villa & Bros., 487 Broadway, (The Silk Exchange Building) NYC, was an importing firm dealing in raw and thrown silk, with purchasing branches in Shanghai and Canton, China; Yokohama, Japan; Milan and Turin, italy; and Lyon, France. In 1912 the company expanded its business into throwing, warping, quilling, and winding silk, in a Passaic, NJ mill. These processes prepare raw silk for use in weaving.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1912
- Credit Line
- Gift of A.P. Villa & Bros., NY
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 13 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 9.525 cm x 33.655 cm
- Object Name
- raw silk skeins
- raw silk skeins, batch of
