Sample length of The Shelton Looms "Upholstery Velour" fabric; 1914. Flattened or panned silk pile, in gray, on a gray warp, light brown weft, cotton back. 50" Width; 1 sample. 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.