Fabric sample; for the African market; Consular Collection; 1917
date: label: date made
content: 1917
notes: label: Description
content: Textile Sample: "Bhurrag Gulab". Tag reads: “ 93881 (/) American Consulate at Mombasa, B.E.A. Trade opportunity No. 150 of July 28, 1917. Sample No.8- Bhurrag Gulabi". Almost a yard-long sample of woven cotton cloth. Dark blue with Pink, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red woven stripes. Unfinished towards the end. Possibly for fringe. Pinks, Yellows, and Blues alternate in a stripe pattern. Blue and Black alternate 1 to 1 for a large portion of sample. Red, White, and Yellow woven band at the end to keep from unraveling.
label: Description
content: An envelope found with the Mombasa textile group reads: "Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington. 93881 (1917), Mombasa Textiles Brit. Manuf. CR 260 1917 FTO25764" (or FTO625764?) This is the Consular Report associated with this textile sample. At the time of this correspondence, Mombasa was in British East Africa. More research needs to be done on this piece to determine if it was indeed of British manufacture or if it is from India.
label: Description
content: Consular Collection: Part of collection of samples acquired by US Consuls overseas between about 1898 and 1918, in the interests of promoting US trade and business opportunities; which was transferred by the Dept. of Commerce in the 1920s-30s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Consular Collection Textile Samples
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from the Department of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN80514V04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 86 cm x 76.5 cm; 33 27/32 in x 30 1/8 in