"Looney Tunes" cartoon character child's pajama fabric; 1970s-80s
date: label: date made
content: 1970s - 1980s
notes: label: Description
content: A length of heat-transfer printed polyester knit fabric with a repeating design of the "Looney Tunes" cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny, Sylvester the Cat, Daffy Duck) dressed in pajamas against a ground of white with yellow stars. Child's pajama fabric. 1970s-80s? Probably one of the designs that Seymour Rappoport was printing in his New jersey based TexStyle Engineering company, but this is not a definitive attribution. 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
topic: label: Subject
content: Cartoon Characters
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: 2016.0213.26
label: accession number
content: 2016.0213
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0213.26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: polyester (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: machine knit, jersey; heat transfer printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 78 in x 60 in; 198.12 cm x 152.4 cm