American Woolen Co. Zebiline Cheviot fabric sample, 1912
date: label: date made
content: 1912
name: label: maker
content: American Woolen Company
label: maker
content: National and Providence Worsted Mills
notes: label: Description
content: American Woolen Company Zebiline Cheviot fabric sample, 1912. 17-ounce black wool twill weave cloth with long napped surface on a diagonal base. Coating weight. Produced by American Woolen Co.'s National & Providence Worsted Mills. The term "Cheviot" reflects the use of coarse wools such as those shorn from the Scottish Cheviot breed of sheep.
label: Description
content: Produced by American Woolen Co's National & Providence Worsted Mills. 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Woolen Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00263.000
label: catalog number
content: T00263.000
label: accession number
content: 54882
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: twill weave; napped (overall production method/technique)