American Printed Fabrics Council Printed Scarf, 1981
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
notes: label: Description
content: A cotton scarf printed as a giveaway for the American Printed Fabrics Council conference in New York City, May 1981. It has a red border and a cream colored center with hearts scattered throughout the center.
label: Description
content: Organized in 1966, the American Printed Fabrics Council was a trade organization that promoted the interests of the nation’s fabric printing firms – at a time when shifts in fiber content, dyestuffs, and printing technologies were making the business a difficult one in which to compete. The organization had successes at first, given credit for advertising campaigns that extended the market share of printed textiles for apparel and furnishings above 20%. The Council gave out “Tommy” awards for textile design into the late 1980s. The award was named for the “tommy keys” that controlled the pressure of the rollers against the fabric on printing machines. The organization briefly became the Printed Fabrics Council, but is not currently active, as the US textile industry declined precipitously in the 1990s.
label: Description
content: Dimensions: 28” Square, hemmed.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection: # 2003.192; Gift of Dee DeRoche
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Textile History Museum Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0232.43
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.43
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scarf
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; screen printed (overall production method/technique)