Sample Card for Textile Fabric Style No. 7550, "Tangent," Cocheco Mfg. Co., May 3, 1881

Summary

During the 19th century, New England textile mills manufactured billions of yards of fabric for the mass market, producing roller-printed cottons using increasingly complex mechanized processes. Colorful cotton prints, like those made by Cocheco Manufacturing Company, became affordable to almost everyone.

During the 19th century, New England textile mills manufactured billions of yards of fabric for the mass market, producing roller-printed cottons using increasingly complex mechanized processes. Colorful cotton prints, like those made by Cocheco Manufacturing Company, became affordable to almost everyone.

Artifact

Sample card

Date Made

03 May 1881

Subject Date

03 May 1881

Creators

Cocheco Manufacturing Company 

Place of Creation

United States, Massachusetts, Lawrence 

Creator Notes

Manufactured by Cocheco Manufacturing Company, Lawrence, Massachusetts.

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2017.84.0.1.145

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of American Textile History Museum.

Material

Glue
Ink
Paper (Fiber product)
Textile fabric

Technique

Mounting
Printing (Process)

Color

Multicolored

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