Decorative Silks in America
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A 1924 booklet published by Cheney Brothers, printing a talk by Frederick W. Budd to the Art-in-Trades Club in New York on the growth of the American silk industry from 1880 to 1920. It covers the Cheney mills at South Manchester, Connecticut, their move into velvets, plush and decorative upholstery silks, inventions such as the Grant reel, silk industry statistics, the shift to American dyestuffs, and early New York decorators such as Candace Wheeler's Associated Artists. Plates show Cheney damask, brocade and brocatelle designs inspired by Egyptian, Byzantine, Italian Renaissance and Spanish models.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1924
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 14
- Archive notes
- Copyright expired
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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