Shaheen Oriana?

[AdvantageInVintage]

Hello,

After some assistance on a Shaheen dress I have the selvedge is printed as follows
"A Shaheen of Honolulu Screen print by Oriana"

Who/ What was Oriana? I've searched and searched the internet to no avail
As an aside, pic of the dress and selvedge alongside this post : )

Liz

 

[themerchantsofvintage]

Nice find. Very pretty.

You could try emailing here: http://www.alfredshaheen.com/index.htm

 

[lkranieri]

I suspect the textile was from Oriana Fabrics Ltd. of Manchester, England. At the end of THIS BLOG you will see a designer dress made with fabric from Oriana Fabrics.

THIS search result indicates that that company was owned by ARMITAGE & RIGBY, cotton spinners.

 

[Catbooks1940s]

does the dress have a shaheen label, or was it just sewn using shaheen fabric?

 

[AdvantageInVintage]

If it is Oriana a British brand that could make sense as I am in the UK.
The dress does not have a Shaheen label no, it is Shaheen fabric. It is definitely 1950s construction however and to a very high standard±

 

[AdvantageInVintage]

Sorry that was written in very poor English! Tiredness!

 

[Pinkcoke]

It sounds like Oriana held the licence to produce Shaheen's printed fabrics in the UK.

 

[AdvantageInVintage]

Exactly Mel!!!! Hmmm very interesting. I was never aware of Shaheen *potentially* being produced in the UK!
The only other example I could find of a Shaheen Oriana fabric was a skirt by Rumonte- a brand I know was British

 

[Pinkcoke]

It makes sense to produce it here, when we had so much in the way of textile manufacturing at that time.

 

[Catbooks1940s]

shaheen, like 99.9% of the hawaiian designers of yore, focused on the prints on their garments, not construction, which was mediocre ready to wear level. there was one whose construction was amazing, but is not at all well known, and her name escapes me.

shaheen was one of if not the best of hawaiian textile printmakers.

your dress is made of shaheen fabric, but is not a shaheen design/dress.

 

[Vicky`sVintage]

I recently found a dress with the same print in the selvedge. It means than that the dress is not a Shaheen dress, just made of a Shaheen style fabric? (It is still beautiful though.)

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

Correct, Vicky's Vintage. I've had garments which were likewise made of Shaheen fabric, but not Shaheen label.

 

[Vicky`sVintage]

Thank you! I love vintage dresses and finding out more about their history. So the company, Oriana had a license to produce the fabric, and than they distributed to different companies around the UK, do you think it is so?