Fide Cathe Howe: "Dotted Swiss, probably one hundred percent cotton. The design is printed on the finished fabric, I'm not sure of the printing process, but it if was silkscreened, the manufacturer needed about eight or nine color runs; the design repeat is approximately 19" in length. The dyes were applied in a thin enough wash to give the effect of watercolor painting. This fabric was most likely used for curtains, bedclothes, or some appurtenance of a ladies; boudoir — the print would have been considered too large to wear on the body.
Donor:
Design (UC Berkeley) and Max Uhle
Collection place:
Europe
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe?
Culture or time period:
European
Collector:
Jane Scribner
Materials:
Cloth (dotted swiss)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Production date:
ca. 1910-1920
Accession date:
1905 and 1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
overall— width 30.25 inches and overall— length 75 inches