Shelton Looms "Kerami Ermine" imitation fur fabric; 1921
date: label: date made
content: 1921
name: label: maker
content: Sidney Blumenthal & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of imitation fur fabric, long solid cut pile, crushed surface, white with printed black 'teardrop' shapes in a regular repeat, to imitate the black tail tips of real ermine tails. Artificial silk pile on a cotton ground. Number stamped on the reverse of the small sample in the file, 960998 5/8. One of a group of pile fabrics given in 1921 by Sidney Blumenthal and Co., Inc, owner and operator of The Shelton Looms, one of the best known and most important American pile fabric producers., whose mills were in Shelton, Connecticut. Original fabric width 51", sample length sent was not noted.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Shelton
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: American Textile Industry
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content: Velvet & Plush Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T04234.000
label: catalog number
content: T04234.000
label: accession number
content: 66732
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Pile
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: artificial silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pile weave; embossed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 51 in; 91.44 cm x 129.54 cm