Water-lily curtain
If a pattern proved successful, Associated Artists tended to adapt it for use on more than one type of textile. Just as the firm printed the same design on both velvets and plain cottons, achieving very different effects, it employed this water-lily design both as a printed pattern on "shadow silks" and for a traditionally woven silk brocade, as seen in this curtain. Associated Artists most likely supplied its designs to the mill in watercolor on paper; undoubtedly, in-house staff members at Cheney Brothers, a silk weaving firm in Hartford (1838-1955), translated the designs onto the cards that directed the jacquard power looms. While Wheeler and her associates had an idea of the effects they wanted to achieve with each pattern, the technicians at the mills made those visions possible.
Artwork Details
- Title: Water-lily curtain
- Designer: Associated Artists (1883–1907)
- Manufacturer: Manufactured by Cheney Brothers (American, 1838–1955)
- Date: 1883–1900
- Geography: Made in Connecticut, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Silk, woven
- Dimensions: 79 x 49 in. (200.7 x 124.5 cm)
- Credit Line: Museum Accession
- Object Number: X.447a
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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Candace Wheeler
1883–1900
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1883–1900
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1883–1900
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1883–1900
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