Sample of Collins & Aikman Corporation figured cotton and rayon velour, 1929. Medium weight, rayon and cotton pile fabric woven with brown and green pile yarns in a pronounced vertical stripe with a smaller and less pronounced horizontal checking. Cut pile, voided. Half width. Off white ground weft.
Collins & Aikman Corporation was founded in 1891 and incorporated in 1929. The company made high end upholstery fabrics, including velvets and plushes in cotton, mohair, and silk, and beginning in the 1910s, artifical silk (rayon). Early on the firm competed successfully in the market for automotive and aviation fabrics. In the 1920s the company had mills in Astoria (Queens), New York; Philadelphia, PA; and North Carolina.