Arlington Mills worsted fabric process sample, 1940
date: label: date made
content: 1940
name: label: maker
content: Arlington Mills
notes: label: Description
content: Arlington Mills worsted fabric process sample, 1940. Very dark navy blue wool; herringbone twill weave; Process label reads: "Worsted Goods After Coloring and Crabbing"l". Knots in the thread on the worng side and many slits close to the selvages; 28" x 30" - with a 4x5 cut off one corner. [Originally part of an Arlington Woolen Mills process display board; dismantled, probably before 1980.]
label: Description
content: Crabbing and coloring were processes in finishing woven wool cloth when it came from the loom.
label: Description
content: Arlington Mills, successor to Arlington Woolen Mills, was one of the premier woolen and worsted companies in the US for many decades. The mills were in and around Lawrence, MA, and company headquarters was in Boston. American manufacturers of woolen and worsted yarns and of woven and knitted textiles relied on both American-grown wool and on imports of raw wool and partially processed wool fiber, called "tops", American growers never produced more than about half the raw wool needed by the American manufacturing sector.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Textile Industry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Arlington Mills through Franklin W. Hobbs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T20209.000
label: accession number
content: 156619
label: catalog number
content: T20209.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: navy blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: twill weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in x 30 in; 71.12 cm x 76.2 cm