Colorful Sports Fabric: Baseball, Football, Fishing, Fox-Hunting, Rowi

(PRINTED SPORTS FABRIC-1906) ULMANN, Bernard. Colorful Sports Fabric: Baseball, Football, Fishing, Fox-Hunting, Rowing, Fencing, Golf. (Woodside, New York: 1906). Colorfully printed illustrated cloth (21 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches). Brightly colored printed cloth with many of the pieces of equipment popular t sportsmen in 1906: Crossed golf club and fencing foil overlapping the fishing reel, tackle box and other sports equipment such as football, baseball, etc. Done in the manner of a coat-of-arms with pictures around the edges of a rooster, dog, fox hunt and rowing. The cloth was designed and copyrighted by Bernard Ulmann whose cloth manufacturing business in Woodside, New York was founded in 1867. They originally sold napkins and handkerchiefs printed with silk-screen designs. The company was known as Bernard Ulmann Company and was shortened to Bucilla, as acronym for the longer name. Very good. 39725.