Keywords: mud cloth
Item 102762
Toy Len Goon's mud silk tunic and pant suit, Guangdong, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Silk, mud, cotton, tan Dioscorea Cirrhosa dye
Exhibit
Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Historic Clothing Collection - Fashions Far & Away
"… is a tunic and pant made from Guangdong (Canton) mud silk, a regional textile specialty, until recently unrecognized or collected by museums."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Jr., Bangor, 1865
"… his apple tree," with David Towle, wading in the mud in 1865; and with Fred Wood playing horse in 1864."
Story
From Chinese Laundress to Mother of the Year
by Dr. Andrea Louie
Toy Len Goon's granddaughter recounts her immigration to the US and becoming Mother of the Year.
