09-21-2017 04:30 PM
09-21-2017 04:38 PM
Hard to say without having it in hand, but the fabric appears to be chintz, a glazed calico.
09-21-2017 04:56 PM
What is your question?
Rita
09-21-2017 05:11 PM
According to this 1922 article, "Superlizarine" colors were used "exclusively" in the printing of Marshall Fields & Co.'s decorative fabrics.
Debora
09-21-2017 05:19 PM
I have no idea what it is? Just hoping to learn more. I want to sell it.
Thanks for your reply, much appreciated to get any help.
09-21-2017 05:20 PM
Thanks so much Debra! Wow 1922
09-21-2017 05:24 PM
That doesn't mean your fabric dates from the 1920s. They may have used that term for decades. And I don't see chintz which has a polished surface. I see linen.
Debora
09-21-2017 06:02 PM
@debora_34_ wrote:That doesn't mean your fabric dates from the 1920s. They may have used that term for decades. And I don't see chintz which has a polished surface. I see linen.
Debora
Definitely. And on a couple of other venues, I found fabrics using the "Superlizarine" dyes pretty identified as from the 1940s, in one case, and c. 1910, in another.
This is a very minor point, but... As far as I can tell from Googling, Marshall Fields may have used "Superlizarine colors" exclusively, but they weren't the exclusive users of them. I found old newspaper ads, the earliest I saw being 1914, with reference to other retailers selling fabrics that used the "Superlizarine" dyes.
In one ad, the fabric dyed with them was described as "sun-fast and tub-proof." Given the brilliant colors of OP's piece and others I found, they must have been great dyes, at that.
I wondered if the name is from alizarin crimson, but I never found any info about the dyes themselves, just references to fabrics colored with them.
09-21-2017 07:00 PM
Thank you for correcting my information and adding your own.
Debora