Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, cut and uncut pile upholstery or furnishing fabric known as "Lorna".; Yarn-dyed, lightweight, short pile fabric resembling a velour, with the pile spaced by three weft picks, the center pick thicker than the other two. This gives a horizontal stripe or pile rib effect, which is further patterned with an abstract design of horizontal broken lines of various lengths at irregularly spaced intervale, in looped pile which conrasts with the cut pile background. Color: Yellow-tan. Massachusetts Mohair Plush Co. was headquartered in Boston but had a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts. According to the manufacturer, this pattern is "furniture quality."
Sample length of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company "Bi-Tone Friezette" upholstery fabric, 1914. Irridescent effect plush with uncut mohair pile in tann, possibly space-dyed to give a strie effect, against a cotton ground with a blue warp, yellow weft. The blue shows through the looped pile, hence the "bi-tone" name. Used for furniture and draperies; also noted by the manufacturer under "railroad plushes." Given by Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, headquartered in Boston with a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1914, along with samples of mohair fiber in various stages of processing, and samples of the company's finished textiles.
Sample length of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company "Friezette" upholstery fabric, 1914. An overall conventionalized (Arts & Crafts style) ogee tracery design in cut pile against an uncut pile ground, in green. The design, however, is oriented with the points of the bu-like ogee across the width of the fabric, rather than vertically, in the warp direction. This may reflect how the fabric was cut for upholstery usage. This pattern was extensively used for sleeping and parlor cars, according to the manufacturer. The backing is cotton, with a black warp and green weft; the pile is mohair, in green. Given by Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, headquartered in Boston with a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1914, along with samples of mohair fiber in various stages of processing, and samples of the company's finished textiles.
