The Shelton Looms "Baby Persian Lamb"
date: label: date made
content: 1921
name: label: maker
content: Sidney Blumenthal & Co. Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A sample length of Shelton Looms imitation fur fabric commercially known as "Baby Persian Lamb". Short curled cut pile fabric with tipped suface which has been crushed (panned) in an allover mottled pattern producint a stripe-like curled effect similar to the real animal. Artificial silk pile on a cotton ground. Pile yarns were black, possibly discharge printed on the surface to give an effect of white-tipping to the finished fabric. One of a group of pile fabrics given in 1921 by Sidney Blumenthal and Co., Inc, owner and operator of The Shelton Looms, one of the best known and most important American pile fabric producers, whose mills were in Shelton, Connecticut. Original fabric width 50", sample length sent was not noted.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Shelton
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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.T04237.000
label: accession number
content: 66732
label: catalog number
content: T04237.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: artificial silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pile weave; embossed (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: discharge-printed? (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: fake fur (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 50 in; 91.44 cm x 127 cm