"Paradise Valley, Mount Rainier, Washington" dress silk, Mallinson's National Park series

A length of a jacquard-patterned and over-printed Mallinson trademark sport silk, "Khaki Kool". A rough surface jacquard figured crepe fabric woven with warp of tussah silk and weft of tussah loosely twisted with a silk crepe yarn. Printed with allover design depicting Paradise Valley, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. In late 1926 American silk manufacturer H.R. Mallinson & Co introduced a bold new line of printed silks, twelve landscape designs, each available in from eight to twelve colorways (color combinations) on three different ground fabrics. The designs celebrated America's national parks - then only a decade old. The designs represented all the usual styles necesssary for making clothing: allover prints, horizontal stripes, checks, a border design. This design depicts snow-capped peaks within a reserve framed by pine trees and flowers. Selvage width; selvage inscription. Judging from drawings by free-lance textile designer Walter Mitschke in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Mitschke designed this print and a few others in the National Park series.

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