4 collections related to Textile fibers

This collection contains technical bulletins from the Calco Chemcial Division of the American Cyanamid Company and Courtaulds Limited, which manufactured Courtelle. The dates of the bulletins range from 1937 to 1988. New Jersey’s Calco Chemical Company was founded in 1915 at a site close to the town of Bound Brook, New Jersey, almost adjacent to the Raritan River, to manufacture coal-tar intermediates required to make synthetic dyestuffs. After 1918, Calco also successfully embarked on the manufacture of synthetic dyestuffs by processes that were far more complex than hitherto used in American chemical industry. After 1945, American Cyanamid’s Calco Chemical Division specialized in vat dyestuffs, fluorescent whitening agents, polyurethane and acrylic polymers, and the invention of herbicides. In 1993, Cyanamid finished its transformation from a chemical to a drug and agricultural products company. Courtelle was an acrylic fabric resembling wool that was developed and manufactured by Courtaulds Ltd., a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibers, and chemicals. Less

Etude des Files is a bound manuscript volume containing handwritten notes in French about thread, with samples of thread and notes related to each sample. The largest part of the book is about silk but there are also pages on cottons, flax, hemp, ramie, jute, wools, and other threads. At head of title is written "Cours de tissage." A bookplate on the inside front cover says that this book was given to Wullschleger by "Th. Bon, professeur de Théorie de Tissage, Ecole industrielle de Courconig[?]" Arthur Wullschleger studied weaving in Lyon, France, in 1899-1900. He may have been from d'Aarbourg, Switzerland. Less