1971
Scarf
silk with overall “moon rock” print in black, blue, pink, green, orange, yellow, purple; label “Michael Murray; all silk; made in USA; dry clean or hand wash”; 28" sq. Blue paper label - “”Moon rock designs; Colourful natural designs in moon rocks brought back from Apollo Space Missions. The design on this fabric is literally “from the moon”. It is... “the actual photomicrograph of the thin slice of the moon rock picked off the lunar landscape by Astronauts Conrad and Bean during their Apollo 12 mission to the moon. “The moon rock forming these unique visual patterns is estimated to be 3.5 and 4.6 billion years old - the scientifically accepted age of the earth itself” “Magnified over 100 times and photographed under polarized light for scientific analysis, the “out of this world” moon rock - the most exotic material known to man - shows its mineral content in the different colors of each mineral in this design” “For example, the bluish-purple segments are pyroxene (calcium and magnesium silicates); the white and yellow-pink mineral is feldspar (aluminum silicate combined with soda); the black streaks are ilmenite (iron, titanium and oxygen); and the remainder is olivine (silicates of iron and magnesium) and various other minerals. There are no traces of fossils or other living matter. (Fabric design copyrighted and registered, 1971 - No. 458934 TDA - by T.B.M
Provenance:
Thomas B. Mechling, Larchmont, New York, N.Y.
Construction Label:
printed silk
1971T 1971.1071
silk with overall “moon rock” print in black, blue, pink, green, orange, yellow, purple; label “Michael Murray; all silk; made in USA; dry clean or hand wash”; 28" sq. Blue paper label - “”Moon rock designs; Colourful natural designs in moon rocks brought back from Apollo Space Missions. The design on this fabric is literally “from the moon”. It is... “the actual photomicrograph of the thin slice of the moon rock picked off the lunar landscape by Astronauts Conrad and Bean during their Apollo 12 mission to the moon. “The moon rock forming these unique visual patterns is estimated to be 3.5 and 4.6 billion years old - the scientifically accepted age of the earth itself” “Magnified over 100 times and photographed under polarized light for scientific analysis, the “out of this world” moon rock - the most exotic material known to man - shows its mineral content in the different colors of each mineral in this design” “For example, the bluish-purple segments are pyroxene (calcium and magnesium silicates); the white and yellow-pink mineral is feldspar (aluminum silicate combined with soda); the black streaks are ilmenite (iron, titanium and oxygen); and the remainder is olivine (silicates of iron and magnesium) and various other minerals. There are no traces of fossils or other living matter. (Fabric design copyrighted and registered, 1971 - No. 458934 TDA - by T.B.M
Provenance:
Thomas B. Mechling, Larchmont, New York, N.Y.
Construction Label:
printed silk
1971T 1971.1071