Chanel-style suit fabric; Forstmann Woolens; 1950s
date: label: date made
content: late 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Forstmann Woolen Co.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of late 1950s woman's Chanel-style suit fabric from Forstmann Woolens (an important American manufacturer of fine woolen textiles). Wrapped around a flat bolt with the Forstmann label. Orange, green, and white check in the heavily textural Chanel style. 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
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey
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: 2016.0213.17
label: accession number
content: 2016.0213
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0213.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool; novelty yarns (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; check (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 48 in x 55 in; 121.92 cm x 139.7 cm