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Design For Textile Fabric: Patent 49,705, Sept. 26, 1916

This is a Design for textile fabric: Patent 49,705. It was designed by Sophia L. Crownfield and made for Cheney Brothers. It is dated Sept. 26, 1916. Its medium is digital reproduction. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.

In the late 1800s, American trade with China and Japan brought an influx of silk textiles and garments to the United States. The Japanese kimono had a lasting popularity amongst American women with the term “kimono” becoming synonymous for a dressing gown. Women’s magazines like The Delineator provided patterns and suggested suitable fabrics for the home sewer. The illustration above shows a kimono with a pattern of cranes and flowering branches.

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