68 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 



silk, and spun silk, m satin weaves, as well as brocaded piece-dyed 

 satins, and figured cross-dyed crepe georgette and crepe meteore. 



To Messrs. Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, the 

 Museum is indebted for five samples of novelty silk fabrics, printed 

 in designs suggesting water movements on a plain weave, soft, 

 drapy material. These were sent as an addition to the large col- 

 lection already contributed by this firm. 



Fine silk fabrics ornamented with attractive designs by means of 

 discharge printing received from A. H. Straus & Co., and the Ori- 

 ental Silk Printing Co., of New York City, are believed to be among 

 the best (examples of this method of printing fabrics that have 

 been produced in the United States. The first named firm con- 

 tributed nine specimens of Luxor taffeta, in Persian, Saracenic, and 

 Italian designs of the eighth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, 

 and two specimens copied from ancient Peruvian fabrics. The 

 Oriental Silk Printing Co. sent an example of their Wedgwood 

 prints, showing a design copied from Wedgwood pottery, which 

 carries out remarkably the relief effect desired. 



The series of novelty silk dress goods was further augmented by 

 the gift of two printed silk poplins from Reiling & Schoen (Inc.), 

 and a specimen of golden-yellow Gros de Londres for draping with 

 a piece of pale brown georgette crepe printed in a unique spiderweb- 

 like design called " camouflage " and suggesting Javanese batik work, 

 from the Rockland Silk Co. (Inc.), of New York. Three other 

 types of new silk fabrics were the gift of J. A. Migel (Inc.), of New 

 York, a coral pink specimen of " Moon-Glo " crepe, a novelty crepe- 

 weave fabric in salmon and gold having a metallic-like surface, and a 

 rough-surfaced fabric printed with an all-over oriental design. 



Woolen fabrics of the worsted type, woven from combed wools, 

 are well represented in the Museum collections, but the carded 

 woolen industry has not been adequately covered heretofore. This 

 makes particularly welcome the contribution from the Worumbo 

 Co., of New York, of 10 excellent examples of carded woolen 

 fabrics woven at Lisbon Falls, Maine, comprising broadcloth, beaver, 

 zibeline, chinchilla, flannels, and overcoatings, and a strong cork- 

 screw-weave fabric used for shoe tops. Owing to the need of con- 

 serving wool for use in the manufacture of military clothing, new 

 types of fabrics for civilian use have been brought out by a number 

 of manufacturers. Lesher, Whitman & Co. (Inc.), of New York, 

 have contributed a specimen of one of these under the name of 

 "Honey Cloth," a cotton-warp worsted having the weft threads 

 composed of one-fourth mohair and three- fourths wool. 



To the series of implements used for preparing, twisting, and 

 weaving textile fibers was added an old flax breaker from Virginia, 

 the gift of Mr. Lester M. Green, Mount Jackson, Virginia. Mr. H. L. 



