Exhibitions: Spinning & Weaving as a Home Industry

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  Winter approximately 1936: The Brooklyn Museum will open four exhibitions simultaneously on Saturday, December 12th, and there will be a reception and preview for members and guests of the Museum on the evening of Friday, December 11th. The Department of Industrial Art, Christine Krehbiel, Acting Curator, will occupy the special exhibition galleries on the first floor with a large exhibition of Rayon and Synthetic Yarns in Textiles, showing processes of manufacture as well as finished products. The Division of American Rooms, Elizabeth Haynes, Assistant Curator, will occupy the neighboring sub-balcony gallery with an exhibition of spinning and Weaving as a Home Industry. At the opening, students from Pratt Institute will give practical demonstrations in this gallery. The Dance Center, Grant Code, Acting Director, will present an exhibition of Photographs of Contemporary Dancers by Thomas Bouchard in the Balcony Gallery, Second Floor. In the adjacent Print Gallery, the Department of Prints and Drawings, Carl 0. Schniewind, Curator, will show Drawings and Prints by Andre’ Dunoyer de Segonzac from the collection of Frank Crowninshield. During the reception on Friday the 11th, Mr. Crowninshield will give an informal talk on the collection in the Print Study Room.
  
  Exhibitors in the Rayon Show are American Bemberg Corporation, American Enka Corporation, Delaware Rayon Corporation, Rayon Department of E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company, Inc., Industrial Rayon Corporation, North American Rayon Corporation, Skernandoa Rayon Corporation, Tubise Chatillon Corporation and The Viscose Company.
  
  In connection with this exhibition the Museum is publishing a Handbook of Rayon and Synthetic Yarns to which the following articles have been contributed by experts in the field: Introduction by M. D. C. Crawford, The Scope of Rayon by Stephen S. Marks, Texture of Rayon Fabrics by Alexis Sommaripa, The Fashion Significance of Rayon by Anne Mullany, Rayon Yarns in Knit Fabrics by E. D. Fowle, Decorative Rayon Fabrics by Virginia Pegram, Science Looks at Rayon’s Serviceability, by Charles L. Simon, Spun Rayon by Alexis Sommaripa, Statistics by Stanley B. Hunt, The History of Rayon by S. A. Salvage, and technical explanations of the various processes by which rayon is fabricated, Viscose, Acetate and Cuprammoniun, by H. W. Rose, H. De Witt Smith and Theodore Wood respectively.
  
  The exhibitions will be available for press preview Tuesday December 8th.
  

  Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 10-12_1936, 146. View Original

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  December 12, 1936: The new lamps installed in the ground before the Brooklyn Museum were lit on Friday evening for the first time for the reception and preview opening four exhibitions, The Rayon and Synthetic Yarns in Textiles, Spinning and Weaving - A Home Industry, Prints and Drawings by Segonzac from Mr. Frank Crowninshield’s collection and Photographs of Contemporary Dancers by Thomas Bouchard. The Entrance Hall was decorated with a tall Christmas tree lit with blue lights and hung with strands of rayon simulating Santa Claus snow. A massive table carried a huge crystal bowl of poinsettias,and streamers of rayon hung in folds from the ceiling of the spacious hail to the floor twenty feet below.
  
  Among those present were:
  
  Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Blum
  Mr. and Mrs. Philip N. Youtz
  Miss Anna Billings Gallup
  Mr. Herbert B. Tschudy
  Mrs. Alexandrina H. Harris
  Mr. Thomas Bouchard
  Miss Sophia Deiza
  Dr. and Mrs. Vinal
  Miss Stella Epstein
  Miss Anne Epstein
  Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Chase
  Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Keck
  Dr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Spinden
  Mr. Carl 0. Schniewind
  Miss Elizabeth Haynes
  Miss Louise Chase
  Miss Helen Wallace
  Mr. Edward Krehbiel
  Miss Martha Krehbiel
  Mr. and Mrs. William Lloyd Garrison III
  Mr. Harold E. Garbarino
  Mr. David Robinson
  Mr. A. Schwartz
  Mr. Ernest Knaufft
  Miss Mary Hubbard
  Miss Mary Ferrese
  Mr. Harvey Parker
  Mr. and Mrs. Judas
  Miss Virginia Enfield
  Miss Virginia Montgomery
  Miss Cynthia Root
  Mrs. Howard Aidridge
  Mrs. Michelle Murphy
  Miss Elizabeth Cameron
  Mr. Harold Dusseldorf
  Mr. and Mrs. Herman de Wetter
  Mr. and Mrs. Donald Shelley
  Dr. and Mrs. Harold Smith
  Mr. and Mrs. Milton Schumann
  Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner
  Miss Mary Dorwood
  Miss Keith Wallace
  Miss Olivia Fancy
  Mr. Jerry O’Connor
  Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Suarez
  Miss Virginia Parker
  Mr. H. N. Westover
  Mr. Richmond Williams
  Miss Mildred C. S one
  Miss Helen McGrath
  Miss Marian C. Lepper
  Mrs. R. Edson Doolittle
  Mrs. Burgess Osterhout
  Miss Flora E. Zahn
  Mr. Harry V. Allison
  Mr. George K. Allison
  Mr. Lew Durante
  Miss Adele Owens
  Miss Jeanne Winham
  Mr. Albert Edward Windham
  Mr. James Owens
  Miss Adelaide Morris
  Mr. Fred Gardner
  Mr. Walter Grant
  Mr. F. Newton Price
  Miss Adele Robinson
  Mr. David Robinson
  Mr. W. S. Gilmore, Jr.
  Mr. and Mrs. Jean Goriany
  Mr. D. S. Brady
  Mr. J. Hadley
  Mr. Barash
  Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Helwig
  Miss Hannah T. Rose
  Mr. Frank Crowninshield
  Miss Mary Ann Farley
  Dr. Joseph Kennoy
  Mr. and Mrs. M. D. C. Crawford
  Mr. Fred Levinthal
  Dr. L. J. Morton
  Mrs. Grace Turner
  Miss Dorothy Woods
  

  Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 10-12_1936, 145. View Original