Group of 20 Fancy Worsted fabric samples bound with black tape by machine. From the American Woolen Co., National & Providence Worsted Mills. All skein dyed; all worsted
Color: 1. Brown & Black; 2. Brown w/white pin stripe in chevron pattern; 3. Dk grey w/white pin stripe; 4,5 & 9-11, 14: Med grey w/white & black pinstripe; 6. Dk grey w/ white and black pinstripe; 7. Brown w/white & red pinstripe; 8. Navy w/white pinstripe in diagonal pattern; 12. Brown, black; 13. Black w/white pinstripe; 15. Navy w/red pinstripe; 16. Navy; 17. Grey; 18. Black w/white pinstripe; 19. Navy w/white pinstripe; 20. Black w/ dk.grey & white pinstripe.
Manufactured by the National and Providence Woolen Mills, Providence, RI.
The Providence and National Worsted Mills, founded in Rhode Island in the 1870s, were originally two companies owned by Charles Fletcher, one a spinning and one a weaving mill for working with worsted yarns. Fletcher amalgamated the two companies into one in 1893, and then sold this company to the large Lawrence-based American Woolen Company in 1899. When the Lawrence mill workers struck against pay cuts in 1912 (the Bread and Roses strike), the American Woolen Company was one of the firms affected. The Rhode Island mills, however, did not strike.
14 samples of woven wool fabrics, bound with black tape by machine stitching. Woolen/Worsted wool suitings and coatings, manufactured by American Woolen Company's "National and Providence Worsted Mills" in Providence, Rhode Island. COLORS: 1. Brown, 2. Black, 3. Brown, 4. Brown/Black, 5. Dk grey, 6. Lt grey w/white pin stripe, 7. Black, 8..Dk grey, 9..Black w/red pin stripe, 10..Brown w/black pin stripe, 11. Very dk blue, 12. Greys, 13. Grey w/black diagonal stripe, 14. Brown
These samples were woven by workers at the American Woolen Company's Providence, Rhode Island mill (The National and Providence Worsted Mills) at about the time the Lawrence Textile Strike (also known as the Bread and Roses strike) was taking place. American Woolen Company also owned the Washington Mill, Wood Mill, and Ayer Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where workers were active in the strike..
Manufactured by the National and Providence Worsted Mills, Providence, RI. The Providence and National Worsted Mills, founded in Rhode Island in the 1870s, were originally two companies owned by Charles Fletcher, one a spinning and one a weaving mill for working with worsted yarns. Fletcher amalgamated the two companies into one in 1893, and then sold this company to the large Lawrence-based American Woolen Company in 1899. When the Lawrence mill workers struck against pay cuts in 1912 (the Bread and Roses strike), the American Woolen Company was one of the firms affected. The Rhode Island mills, however, did not strike.
Length of novelty pile fabric in pink overprinted with a plaid on the diagonal in brown and green. Weave structure similar to "Panoply" from this same donation. Artificial silk solid cut pile is clipped to give a diagonal or twill aeffect in the weave, Color "Camelia" 51" wide. Sample length not noted. One of a number of samples of pile fabrics given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc. owner and operator of The Shelton Looms, Shelton, CT, in 1921.
A sample length of Shelton Looms upholstery cut pile fabric, "Continental". This novelty upholstery velvet has very short dark red mohair pile in a very open weave so that the contrasting yellow ground shows through. Color: mulberry, 3002. Mfr # 148F. One of a group of fabric samples given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc, owner and operatorof the Shelton Looms. 52" width, sample length 36". White warp; yellow weft, dark red pile warp. Stencilled Mfrs. mark. Yellow twill tape machine stitched along one selvedge.
A length of Shelton Looms "Audubon" novelty pile fabric. A novelty plush with a long artificial silk cut pile, randomly tinted blue and golden yellow, and pressed in swirls to imitate bird plumage. According to the initial cataloging from the accession file, "The colors of this fabric were inspired by the feathers of the Callistel." One of a group of samples of novelty pile fabrics given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc., owner and operator of the Shelton Looms, Shelton, CT, in 1921. Width 51", sample length not noted. Mfr # 12254E
L.C. Chase & Company brand "Velmo" mohair pile upholstery fabric, "Byzantine", 1922. Fabric with close, short, solid cut mohair pile, with a cotton back. Pattern of vertical self-tone stripes in browns, linked by a narrow black stripe. Pattern # 42; color # 1808. Made at Sanford Mills, Sanford Maine; selling agents, L.C. Chase & Co. Width: 54"; Length 35.5"
L.C. Chase "Velmo" figured mohair pile upholstery fabric, "Lorenzo", 1922. Golden yellow cotton ground warp and weft, against which a renaissance design of foliage curving around an urn with paired griffins, in green is raised in two heights and densities of mohair pile. Pattern #203; Color: Sage, # 17046. 36" length x 50" width. Repeat length is 26", two repeats across the width. Manufactured by Sanford Mills, Sanford, Maine; selling agent L.C. Chase & Co.
A length of Shelton Looms "Pan Undulay" novelty pile fabric. Solid cut pile fabric with a very fine artificial silk pile pressed or embossed in a horizontal crinkle pattern which gives a rippled finish. Weave structure the same as "Panoply" from the same donation. Color: Caramel (golden brown) Mfr # 66205E. 51" width, no sample length given. One of a group of fabrics given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc. in 1921. Blumenthal owned and operated The Shelton Looms in Shelton CT, noted American pile fabric mill.
A length of Shelton Looms "Ronge Velvet" novelty pile fabric. Novelty pile weave "chiffon velvet" with black artificial silk cut pile of two lengths: a shorter sparsely woven background which allows the golden yellow ground weave to show through, and a longer, more densely woven patterning pile.Design of "idealized chrysanthemums" One of a number of novelty pile weave samples donated by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc. owner and operator of The Shelton Looms, in Shelton, CT, in 1921. 43.5" wide, sample length not noted. Mfr # 18325 1/3
A length of Shelton Looms "Panoply" novelty solid cut pile fabric. A pile fabric with a very fine, short artificial silk pile, "with the feel of a heavy satin", the pile rows cut in such a way as to give a twill or diagonal effect. Color: larkspur (blue) Mfr #33404E. 52" width, no sample length noted. One of a group of fabrics given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc. in 1921. Blumenthal owned and operated The Shelton Looms in Shelton CT, noted American pile fabric mill.
A length of Shelton Looms "Chadwick" pile upholstery fabric. Fabric has a short cut pile of mohair in tan, printed with a large floral in six colors on a raisin-colored ground. Pattern meanders over the surface; 26" repeat length, filling the width. Mfr # 4642E; 64641E; color 3401. 36 1/2" L x 51 1/2" W. . One of a group of pile fabrics given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc. in 1921. Blumenthal owned and operated the Shelton Looms, in Shelton, CT, noted American manufacturer of pile fabrics
3 'books' of raw silk skeins; 2 large skeins in each book. Coarse, white; Reeled in Japan. Transfer from the US Dept. of Agriculture, sericulture display; Bureau of Entomology. July 9, 1912.
At various points in American history, from colonial times onward, people experimented with sericulture - meaning the raising of silkworms and reeling of silk filaments from silkworm cocoons. At first it was hoped that this silk could be shipped to Great Britain for use in its silk textile manufacturing industry. Experiments in the 1760s and after, into the early 20th century, hoped to raise enough silk to support an American silk textile industry. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, efforts in California and other (primarily) western states were supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture with a display in the department's headquarters building in Washington, DC. The display also highlighted the imports of raw silk from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East that most manufacturers used in their products. The contents of the display were transferred to the (then) U.S. National Museum in 1912, for exhibition in the Textile Hall, as educational background for the exhibition of silk textiles manufactured in the US.
2 books (of 2 large skeins each, 4 skeins total) of raw silk. Coarse, white; Reeled in japan. Transfer from the US Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, display on sericulture; July 9, 1912.
At various points in American history, from colonial times onward, people experimented with sericulture - meaning the raising of silkworms and reeling of silk filaments from silkworm cocoons. At first it was hoped that this silk could be shipped to Great Britain for use in its silk textile manufacturing industry. Experiments in the 1760s and after, into the early 20th century, hoped to raise enough silk to support an American silk textile industry. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, efforts in California and other (primarily) western states were supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture with a display in the department's headquarters building in Washington, DC. The display also highlighted the imports of raw silk from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East that most manufacturers used in their products. The contents of the display were transferred to the (then) U.S. National Museum in 1912, for exhibition in the Textile Hall, as educational background for the exhibition of silk textiles manufactured in the US.
46 Skeins of American grown silk (yellow), reeled in Washington. Transferred from the sericulture display at the US Dept of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology; July 9, 1912.
At various points in American history, from colonial times onward, people experimented with sericulture - meaning the raising of silkworms and reeling of silk filaments from silkworm cocoons. At first it was hoped that this silk could be shipped to Great Britain for use in its silk textile manufacturing industry. Experiments in the 1760s and after, into the early 20th century, hoped to raise enough silk to support an American silk textile industry. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, efforts in California and other (primarily) western states were supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture with a display in the department's headquarters building in Washington, DC. The display also highlighted the imports of raw silk from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East that most manufacturers used in their products. The contents of the display were transferred to the (then) U.S. National Museum in 1912, for exhibition in the Textile Hall, as educational background for the exhibition of silk textiles manufactured in the US.
Cheney Bros. Velvet ribbon samples in hinged box; for display. Ribbon samples mounted on gold foil covered paper loop mounts within dark red covered hinged display box.
A fabric length with solid cut mohair pile of two lengths; the short pile which forms the background has more plain weft picks in between warp pile rows, this allows the contrasting color of the ground to show through, the longer pile, more densely woven, forms a large conventionalized ogival pattern with central pomegranate/floral medallion Repeat is 27" long; 2 repeats per width of fabric; 1/2 step repeat This structure is identical with a chiffon velour. Color: "mauve" (purplish-brown pile, yellow ground) #3504. Mfr #19318E. Sample length 37", width 52" One of a number of samples of pile fabrics given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc. owner and operator of The Shelton Looms, Shelton, CT, in 1921. Stencilled Mfrs. mark.
A length of a Shelton Looms solid cut pile upholstery fabric, titled "Panoply Mandarine": a very fine artificial silk short pile fabric with the same weave structure as "Panoply (TE*T04246) and the feel of a heavy satin; navy blue pile with an allover pigment-printed swirling pattern in gold metallic. Mfr # 31211E. 54" wide, no sample length noted. One of a number of samples of pile fabrics given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc. owner and operator of The Shelton Looms, Shelton, CT, in 1921.
A fabric length with silk or artificial silk cut pile of two lengths; the short pile which forms the background has more plain weft picks in between warp pile rows, this allows the contrasting color of the ground to show through. The longer pile, more densely woven, forms a conventionalized floral pattern with a 28" repeat. This structure is identical with a chiffon velour. Color: green (tan ground) #3706. Mfr # 51501E 36" L x 51 1/2" W. One of a number of samples of pile fabrics given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc. owner and operator of The Shelton Looms, Shelton, CT, in 1921. Stencilled Mfrs. mark.
