Five Silk Sample Books from the National Silk Dyeing Company, 1911 - 1915.
by [Textiles / Decorative Arts / Labor]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good overall
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
Paterson, New Jersey: National Silk Dyeing Company, 1911 - 1915. Very Good overall. Five accordion-style books bound in brown cloth with snaps and gilt stamping, containing nearly 780 samples of 800; each set of samples is approx. 5 cm long and contains five different hues of tied silk string. Each book 13 x 23 cm, or approx. 23 x 75 cm opened in full. Splitting to edges of some bindings; some samples missing or bent. A rare collection of silk sample booklets from the period before and after the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike. Included are: Autumn 1911, Autumn 1912, Spring 1914, Autumn 1914, and Spring 1915. OCLC locates only incomplete holdings at Yale (Spring 1915 - Spring 1918), the Fashion Institute of Technology (Spring 1911, Autumn 1916, Spring 1917 and Spring 1918), and the Brooklyn Museum (Spring 1913).
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- Bookseller
- Kate Mitas, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1776
- Title
- Five Silk Sample Books from the National Silk Dyeing Company, 1911 - 1915.
- Author
- [Textiles / Decorative Arts / Labor]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good overall
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- National Silk Dyeing Company
- Place of Publication
- Paterson, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1911 - 1915
- Bookseller catalogs
- Trade Catalogues;
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About the Seller
Kate Mitas, Bookseller
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Oakland, California
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Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...