Sample length of The Shelton Looms Upholstery Plush fabric; 1914. Mohair pile on a cotton back, cut pile, in bright green. 27" width. 1 sample. Long pile, flattened; black warp, green weft cotton ground. Wide selvages with black, white, and gray stripes, bearded at the edge suggesting a double weave - two fabrics woven face-to-face with a shared warp, cut apart as they come off the loom. One of a group of pile fabrics given in 1914 (accessioned in 1915) 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.