Eastern Textile Woolen Mills abstract woven fabric; 1960s
date: label: date made
content: 1960s
name: label: maker
content: Eastern Textile Woolen Mills, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of abstract patterned woven wool doublecloth fabric from Eastern Textile Woolen Mills, probably mid to late 1960s. Bright blue, red, white, and brown, with black selvage warps. The bolt label read: Eastern Textile Woolen Mills, Inc. 256 W. 39th St., New York, NY, 10018. Telephone 212-WI7-4878. (Eastern Textile Woolen Mills was also known as Eastern Textile Woolens and seems to not have been a manufacturer, but a converter or commission merchant.) One of 27 textile lengths dating from the 1950s into the 1980s, part of a collection owned by Seymour Rappoport, who owned two fabric stores himself, and whose father owned a silk-dyeing firm in Paterson, NJ. in the early 20th century. This collection illustrates the broad range of textiles, from around the world, that were available to and sought by home sewers and small businesses (such as dressmakers, tailors, and theatrical costume shops) that were avid patrons of fabric stores into the 1980s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marjorie and Seymour Rappoport
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0213.24
label: accession number
content: 2016.0213
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0213.24
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: doublecloth (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 in x 55 in; 116.84 cm x 139.7 cm