172 results for: Manufacturing
Dress, "Rosa Lace" made by Paloma Hurtado, 2017
This dress is from Seattle designer Paloma Hurtado’s collection “Nómada.” The line combines fabrics and finds from Seattle, with historic and modern motifs from Mexico—her home country. The dress uses vintage lace from a local fabric store that Hurtado hand-dyed to evoke a colorful Mexican stained-glass window.
ID Number:2019.12.1
Date:2017
Dress, "3.21" from FEMAIL, 2017
Designers Janelle Abbott (Seattle) and Camilla Carper (Los Angeles) create imaginative garments under the name FEMAIL by mailing items back and forth. Calling the process “reactive collaboration,” they add and subtract elements in turn until the piece feels complete. This dress incorporates a Pike Place Market umbrella Abbott found abandoned outside her studio.
ID Number:2019.22.1
Date:2017
Green and pink John Eaton hat, ca. 1950s-1960s
This hat has a striking combination of green velvet with bright pink trim. It also includes small rhinestones on the pink decoration, a band of dark blue velvet, a green net veil, and a matching hatpin with a small green pom-pom. Cornish School of Arts graduate John Eaton (1914-1991) was a successful milliner, designer, and teacher whose individually-styled hats became…
ID Number:2019.41.1
Date:Circa 1950-1960
Silver hat with rhinestones made by John Eaton, ca. 1960s
This sparkling silver hat was made by local milliner John Eaton and worn in Seattle by Stina Johannesen. Cornish School of Arts graduate John Eaton (1914-1991) was a successful milliner, designer, and teacher whose individually-styled hats became known all over the country. Eaton and partner James Neher opened their first store in 1950, and eventually opened “John Eaton Of Course!”…
ID Number:2019.51.1
Date:Circa 1960-1969
Nuciano "Aurene" handbag in orange, 2019
Nuciano is a contemporary Seattle-based luxury handbag company, founded by creative director Joy Egbejimba. Nuciano’s signature design element is a cowrie shell—incorporated here as the clasp. Egbejimba was born in Nigeria, where the cowrie has a powerful history as an item of adornment and currency.
ID Number:2019.71.1
Date:2019
Bottle of Mapleine extract from Crescent Mfg. Co., ca. 1980
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. In 1905, a Crescent company chemist and salesman concocted an imitation maple flavoring dubbed Mapleine. By the early twentieth century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989,…
ID Number:2019.92.1
Date:Circa 1980
Bottle of Pure Flavor Brandy extract from Crescent Mfg. Co., ca. 1980
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. By the early twentieth century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989, and consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington in 1990.
ID Number:2019.92.RefBrandy
Date:Circa 1980
Bottle of Pure Peppermint Extract from Crescent Mfg. Co., ca. 1980
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. By the early twentieth century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989, and consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington in 1990.
ID Number:2019.92.RefPeppermint
Date:Circa 1980
Pair of red "Saylor" children's shoes from See Kai Run, 2019
See Kai Run was founded in 2004 in Seattle by mom Cause Haun. The company makes children’s shoes which are fun, well crafted, and engineered to promote healthy foot development. This red pair is also “water friendly” and machine washable.
ID Number:2020.20.1
Date:2019
Long light blue dress, ca. 1960s-1970s
Stanley A. Hostek (1918-2014) was a prominent and influential tailor in Seattle. In addition to owning his own custom tailoring business, he taught tailoring at Edison Technical School (now Seattle Community College) and authored a series of instructional tailoring books in the 1970s. He made this dress for his wife Dorothy Hostek.
ID Number:2020.24.7
Date:Circa 1960-1970