American Woolen Co. melton fabric samples, 1912
date: label: date made
content: 1912
notes: label: Description
content: Group of 8 American Woolen Co., wool outerwear fabric samples, 1912. Sample edges are pinked.. Melton (samples 3, 7, and 8) is a thick, densely fulled fabric with a closely cut napped surface, used for dressy overcoats and jackets. Samples 1,4,5, and 6 are tagged as "overcoatings." Colors: 1-Medium grey; 2-Dark brown; 3-Medium light grey; 4-Black; 5-Black; 6-Midnight blue; 7-Black; 8-Midnight blue.
label: Description
content: Manufactured by the National and Providence Worsted Mills, Providence, RI. 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 The American Woolen Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00259.01-.08
label: accession number
content: 54882
label: catalog number
content: T00259.01-.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric samples
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fulled (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 26 in; 45.72 cm x 66.04 cm