Fashion Skinnerssatin – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Fashion Skinnerssatin in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Fashion Skinnerssatin
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The title points to Skinner's Satin, a trade name for silk satin cloth, so this picture is likely tied to fashionable dress fabric rather than a family scene alone. Skinner's silk was made by the Skinner family's mills in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and their satins were widely sold to dressmakers and shoppers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Images like this often served as advertising or fashion illustration, showing how a glossy, heavy fabric shaped the silhouettes of the day. Its place on this board reflects how women's domestic and social lives were closely tied to clothing choices and the goods available to them.
| Original scan | 2,892 × 3,654 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09380_FashionSkinnerssatin |
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