A length of off-white long pile imitation fur fabric; long solid cut pile (plush) is crushed in a random pattern on the surface. Cotton back; lustrous artificial silk pile. Stamp on the reverse of small sample in file: The Shelton Looms...98G71B. 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 woven 51" wide. Length of sample sent was not noted.