A length of imitation fur fabric, long solid cut pile, crushed surface, white with printed black 'teardrop' shapes in a regular repeat, to imitate the black tail tips of real ermine tails. Artificial silk pile on a cotton ground. Number stamped on the reverse of the small sample in the file, 960998 5/8. One of a group of pile fabrics given in 1921 by Sidney Blumenthal and Co., Inc, owner and operator of The Shelton Looms, one of the best known and most important American pile fabric producers., whose mills were in Shelton, Connecticut. Original fabric width 51", sample length sent was not noted.