Fabrikoid
{{Short description|Brand of artificial leather, from cotton cloth coated with nitrocellulose-based coating}}
Fabrikoid, patented in October 1915,{{cite web |title=Fabrikoid - A Game Changer |url=https://www.hagley.org/about-us/news/museum-fabrikoid-game-changer |website=Hagley Museum |access-date=10 March 2022 |language=en |date=29 April 2016}} is a brand of artificial leather manufactured by DuPont.{{cite web |title=Fabrikoid: definition and meaning |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/fabrikoid |website=Collins English Dictionary |access-date=10 March 2022}}
Material
Fabrikoid consists of cotton cloth coated with pyroxylin (a less nitrated nitrocellulose, dissolved in castor oil, alcohol, benzene and amyl acetate).{{cite web |last1=Peachey |first1=Jeff |title=Fabrikoid |url=https://jeffpeachey.com/2014/02/18/fabrikoid/ |website=Peachey Conservation |access-date=10 March 2022 |language=en |date=18 February 2014}}World Book Encyclopedia. Vol. 7 (F), 1967 Edition, p. 3. Fabrikoid has been used for luggage, bookbinding,{{cite web |title=Fabrikoid |url=https://www.anyweatherpaper.co.uk/fabrikoid |website=anyweatherpaper.co.uk |access-date=10 March 2022}} upholstery and dress trimmings.
History
In 1910, DuPont purchased Newburgh, New York's Fabrikoid Company.{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Ernie |title=How Pleather Saved the DuPont Company—And Some Cows, Too |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-pleather-saved-the-dupont-companyand-some-cows-too |website=Atlas Obscura |access-date=10 March 2022 |language=en |date=19 December 2016}}{{cite web |title=E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER COMPANY and Du Pont Fabrikoid Company, Petitioners, v. WALTER E. MASLAND et al. |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/244/100 |website=Legal Information Institute |access-date=10 March 2022 |language=en}}
By the 1920s Fabrikoid was used heavily in both automobile seat covers and the tops of convertible automobiles.{{Cite web |url=http://www2.dupont.com/Heritage/en_US/1910_dupont/1910_overview.html |title=DuPont website entry on Fabrikoid |access-date=2011-04-20 |archive-date=2011-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510210702/http://www2.dupont.com/Heritage/en_US/1910_dupont/1910_overview.html |url-status=dead }}
Gilbert Rohde conducted some of the early experiments on its uses in upholstery.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
Further reading
- Robert Kanigel FAUX REAL: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes. Washington D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2007.
- Meikle, Jeffrey L. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/41805870 “Presenting a New Material: From Imitation to Innovation with Fabrikoid.”] The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, no. 19 (1995): 8–15.
References
External links
- {{cite book |title=Fabrikoid, an improvement on leather.. |date=1911 |publisher=E. I. du Pont de Nemours |location=Baltimore, Md. |url=https://archive.org/details/fabrikoidimprove00dupo |quote=Printed by the Lord Baltimore press}}
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