QUESTION about cloth and markings: origins

[Howard Hughes]

Hello All,

Quick question.

Can anyone tell me when cloth manufacturers started to weave the country of origin into the edge of pieces of cloth.

Yours Perplexed

HH

 

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[benstephens]

HH,

I am not sure to be honest. I have a piece of cloth circa 1955 from when my grandma used to work at Hunt & Winterbottom, and that has the Made In England around it.

I will ask her what she remembers, which is normally quite a lot!

Ben

 

[Tomasso]

The Tariff Act of 1930 set forth marking requirements for the import of goods to the US. Whether textile manufacturers marked their goods prior to that time, I couldn't tell you. If you're really interested you might try contacting an old time fabric merchant like H. Lesser, W.Bill, Holland & Sherry, etc.....