The thousands of textiles currently housed at the Brooklyn Museum are prime examples of the vast glo

The thousands of textiles currently housed at the Brooklyn Museum are prime examples of the vast global history of textile making and sewing traditions in New York City. In participation with New York Textile Month,we will be showcasing one textile per day for the month of September. While difficult to narrow it down to only thirty textiles, we think these works are best at weaving narratives about topics such as innovations in the textile industry, craft and the beauty of the handmade, textiles from legendary designers like Frank Lloyd Wright and Anni Albers, as well as textiles with a sense of humor. Did you know that PeeWee’s Playhouse had a line of textiles made? R. H. Mallison & Company was one the most fascinating textile firms in the United States in the early twentieth century. In 1893, Hiram Royal Mallinson joined the silk trade as a salesman at Pelgram & Meyer in Paterson, New Jersey, and by 1900 was a partner at the firm M. C. Migel in New York. In 1912, he became the sole owner and changed the name of the company to his own in 1915. The firm always concentrated on high-end designs and championed aggressive, American-style promotional campaigns and stylish graphics for their advertisements. They showed their textiles at the annual Industrial Art exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other artistic venues. Their 1928 “American Indian” series was inspired by Native American art at the Brooklyn Museum. The silk crepe textile featured here was designed by Martha Ryther in 1923 as part of her “History of the Loom” series and has an Asian inspiration. The Great Depression had adverse effects on the firm; it filed for bankruptcy in 1936 and was eventually subsumed by the voracious Burlington Industries in 1955.Posted by Barry R. Harwood, Lark Morgenstern, and Caitlin Crews -- source link
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