Goodall-Sanford Inc. "High style" upholstery fabric with Lurex; 1951
date: label: date made
content: 1951
notes: label: Description
content: Sample length of Goodall-Sanford Inc. "High style" upholstery fabric developed by adding gold metalic yarns, "Lurex" to this blue ground rayon, wool, and cotton blend fabric. Lurex is a brand name for metallic yarns, produced since 1946 by the Lurex Division of the Dobeckmun Co.Cleveland (later a division of Dow), and its successors, currently (2019) the Lurex Company Ltd. Lurex is a metalized polyester film. Goodall-Sanford probably purchased the Lurex from Dobeckmun or perhaps a licensee; Goodall did not manufacture Lurex.
label: Description
content: Part of a gift of 14 fabric samples and 11 fiber samples by Goodall-Sanford Inc., Sanford, Maine, to illustrate "Fiber Blending for Better Performance", in September 1951. The Goodall Worsted Company (maker of the mohair and cotton blend fabric "Palm Beach Cloth"), and the Sanford Mills (maker of mohair and wool velvets, plushes, and imitation fur fabrics) merged in 1944 to form Goodall-Sanford Inc. Palm Beach cloth was a menswear summer staple, and was one of the first fabrics considered "easy-care", although both its components were natural fibers. This donation illustrates some of the company's other efforts at blending fibers, in this case natural and synthetic blends. Goodall-Sanford's sales headquarters were at 545 Madison Avenue, NY 22, NY.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maine, Sanford
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Textile Industry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Goodall-Sanford, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T10993.000
label: accession number
content: 191448
label: catalog number
content: T10993.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rayon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: lurex (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metalic gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 35 1/2 in; 60.96 cm x 90.17 cm