William Skinner and Sons Nylon Twill: "Combat Cloth" Irish green fabric length 1946.
date: label: date made
content: 1946
notes: label: Description
content: William Skinner and Sons Nylon Twill: "Combat Cloth" Irish green fabric length 1946.
label: Description
content: Fine, smooth, slightly stiff, close fabric. Used for soles of electrically heated shoes, casualty blankets, coating purposes for government development, footballpants,and basketball uniforms. See T09669.000 (football pants) for application of fabric in different color. Commercially called Combat Cloth. Color Irish Green. 3/1 twill weave to the right. Yarn sizes - warp is 70/34/7, weft is 210/34/1. 100% nylon.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Holyoke
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William Skinner and Sons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T09671.000
label: accession number
content: 172805
label: catalog number
content: T09671.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
label: Object Name
content: Fabric length
label: Object Name
content: Nylon twill: "Combat Cloth"
label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: Irish green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: twill weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 in x 40 in; 93.98 cm x 101.6 cm