stockings, pair of
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1930
name: label: maker
content: Berkshire
notes: label: Description
content: Rayon was the first manmade fiber and was produced as a direct competitor of silk. Two types of rayon were produced in the United States: viscose and curprammonium. The process for making viscose rayon was discovered by Cross and Bevan in England in 1891. That same year the cuprammonium process was discovered by Fremery and Urban in Germany. The first usefull cuprammonium fibers were made by Theile in 1901. Theile was hired by J.P. Bemberg to produce rayon yarns. Eventually, Bemberg built rayon plants in England, Japan and the United States, and cuprammonium rayon became known as Bemberg rayon.
label: Description
content: These Bemberg rayon stockings were made in 1930, by the Berkshire Hosiery
label: Description
content: Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Bemberg Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T06680.000
label: catalog number
content: T06680.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Stockings, Pair of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 in; 83.82 cm