The Shelton Looms "Panoply Mandarine" pile upholstery fabric
date: label: date made
content: 1921
name: label: maker
content: Sidney Blumenthal & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A length of a Shelton Looms solid cut pile upholstery fabric, titled "Panoply Mandarine": a very fine artificial silk short pile fabric with the same weave structure as "Panoply (TE*T04246) and the feel of a heavy satin; navy blue pile with an allover pigment-printed swirling pattern in gold metallic. Mfr # 31211E. 54" wide, no sample length noted. One of a number of samples of pile fabrics given by Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc. owner and operator of The Shelton Looms, Shelton, CT, in 1921.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Shelton
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Textile Industry
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content: Velvet & Plush Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney BLumenthal & Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T04245.000
label: catalog number
content: T04245.000
label: accession number
content: 66732
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Pile
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: artificial silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pile weave; pigment-printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 54 in; 91.44 cm x 137.16 cm