"Combat cloth" nylon fabric by William Skinner & Sons, ca. 1947
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1947
name: label: maker
content: William Skinner and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: A sample length of William Skinner & Sons "Combat Cloth." A fine, smooth, slightly stiff close fabric in 3/1 twill to the right; counting 192 x 80; 100% nylon. Used for soles of electrically heated shoes, casualty blankets, coating purposes for government development, football pants, and basketball uniforms. Pimento red. One of many fabrics made of synthetic fibers in response to shortages of natural fibers during the Second World War.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Incorporated, Nylon Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T09904
label: accession number
content: 176161
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: twill weave (overall production method/technique)