Sample of cotton plush gray goods, Contrexeville Mfg Co. , 1914
date: label: date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Contrexeville Mfg. Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Sample of all-cotton plush gray goods, Contrexeville Mfg Co. , 1914. The pile, ground warp and ground weft are all in the undyed and unbleached state. The sample is woven double and is partially split to illustrate how the two fabrics woven face to face are separated by the cutting machine as the piece comes off the loom. 33.5" L x 28" W. Contrexeville Mfg. Co. was an important maker of cotton velvets and plushes from the 19th into the 20th centuries, and held several patents for improvements to the pile fabric loom. One of a group of samples donated by the manufacturer in August 1914.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Manville
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Contrexeville Mfg. Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01993.000
label: catalog number
content: T01993.000
label: accession number
content: 57317
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Pile
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pile weave; in the gray (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 1/2 in x 28 in; 85.09 cm x 71.12 cm