Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company figured pile upholstery fabric, "Lorna", 1935
date: label: date made
content: 1935
name: label: maker
content: Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company
notes: label: Description
content: Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, cut and uncut pile upholstery or furnishing fabric known as "Lorna".; Yarn-dyed, lightweight, short pile fabric resembling a velour, with the pile spaced by three weft picks, the center pick thicker than the other two. This gives a horizontal stripe or pile rib effect, which is further patterned with an abstract design of horizontal broken lines of various lengths at irregularly spaced intervale, in looped pile which conrasts with the cut pile background. Color: Yellow-tan. Massachusetts Mohair Plush Co. was headquartered in Boston but had a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts. According to the manufacturer, this pattern is "furniture quality."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Textile Industry
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content: Velvet & Plush Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T07599.00B
label: catalog number
content: T07599.00B
label: accession number
content: 134807
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Upholstery, Pile
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mohair (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: amber (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: upholstery plush (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: pile weave; cut and uncut pile (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 100 in x 54 in; 254 cm x 137.16 cm