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Advertisement in Arts and Decoration, 1921
Advertisement in Arts and Decoration, 1921
Cheney Silks, c. 1921
Ephemera · 1 page
A one-page 1921 advertisement from Cheney Brothers for a Louis XVI style satin damask silk designed by Holzach, a French Jacquard designer. The text says the pattern is a single repeat 82 by 50 inches, was produced over several months, and is stocked in a limited range of colors with special colors made to order. The page shows an ornamental Louis XVI border and a black-and-white image of the damask pattern.
Decorative Silks in America
Decorative Silks in America
Monograph · 14 pages
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.

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