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brocaded dress silks for the fall season of 1915, from the Duplan 

 Silk Co., of New York, include wonderful exami)les of cross-dyeing 

 in brilliant colors, fabrics woven with a silk warp and artificial silk 

 filling. 



New printed satins, pongees and tussah silks were added to their 

 already extensive collection by Cheney Brothers, of South Man- 

 chester, Conn.; and Jansen & Pretzfeld, of New York, presented 

 samples of trimming silks, including a remarkable example of warp- 

 printed taffeta. New taffeta dress silks in Mexican and Indian de- 

 signs were received from M. C. IVIigel & Co., of New York. Satins, 

 crepes and chiffons, decorated by spray printing in a manner similar 

 to the fine work produced in Lyons, France, were contributed by 

 T. H. McCool & Co., of New York, in cooperation with the Decorus 

 Manufacturing Co., of the same city, from which latter firm, by 

 whom the decorative work was done by means of the airograph or 

 air brush, the first machine of this kind imported into the United 

 States was obtained as a gift. A fine example of Irish hand-woven 

 linen damask tablecloth was furnished by Walpole Brothers, Inc., 

 of New York. 



To the Quaker Lace Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., the Museum is in- 

 debted for a most instructive series of specimens and photograj)hs 

 showing the manufacture of machine-made laces and lace curtains, 

 including the enlarged colored drafts of the designs on ruled paper. 

 An interesting collection of modern European handmade laces, em- 

 bracing specimens of the picturesque lace headgear worn by the 

 women of Holland and of southeastern France, was received as a 

 loan from Mrs. M. E. Boyd, of South Hanover, Mass. 



Two fine examples of Chinese textiles were deposited. One of 

 these, from Miss Sarah McC. Trescot, of Pendleton, S. C, is a mag- 

 nificent piece of gold thread embroidery on scarlet silk, depicting the 

 Empress and her two attendant fan bearers. It was purchased in 

 the Imperial Palace at Pekin by her father, William Henry Trescot, 

 one of three commissioners from the United States on a diplomatic 

 mission to the Chinese Government in 1880. The other, from Mrs. 

 Olive B. Myers, of Thurmont, Md., is a brocaded robe made for Em- 

 peror Hein Fung and taken from the Yuen-Ming- Yuen, Pekin, by 

 order of the English and French allies, when that palace was de- 

 stroyed by fire in 1860. The collection of elaborately woven and em- 

 broidered textiles was further enriched by several beautiful Cash- 

 mere shawls, the gift of Mr. Gracie K. Eichards, of Washington. 



The division was fortunate in obtaining excellent examples of the 

 work done by one of the most famous early American weavers, con- 

 sisting of two double-woven blue and white coverlets, made from 

 homespun threads of cotton and wool in 1850 and 1858, respectively, 

 by Sarah La Tourette, of Fountain County, Ind. A white cotton 



