Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company figured pile upholstery fabric, "Dracut", 1935
date: label: date made
content: 1935
name: label: maker
content: Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company
notes: label: Description
content: Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company figured pile upholstery or furnishing fabric known as "Dracut."; Yarn-dyed, heavy weight pile fabric woven with a cut pile pattern of stylized, detached single floral sprigs against a ground of uncut, or looped, pile. This gives the appearance of a darker color design on the plain looped pile ground, although the yarns are the same color and a uniform height. Color: a slightly grayed green. The cut pile appears dark, the looped pile has a grayer, lighter tone. According to the manufacturer, this pattern is "furniture quality but has also been used by the railroads." Massachusetts Mohair Plush Co. was headquartered in Boston but had a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
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
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T07600.00A
label: catalog number
content: T07600.00A
label: accession number
content: 134807
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Upholstery, Pile
label: Object Name
content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Mohair (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: grey-green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: upholstery plush (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: pile weave; cut and uncut pile (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 54 in; 101.6 cm x 137.16 cm