Fabrikoid was an imitation leather manufactured by DuPont

DuPont

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company , commonly referred to as DuPont, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont. DuPont was the world's third largest chemical company based on market capitalization and ninth based on revenue in 2009...

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Fabrikoid consists of cotton cloth coated with nitrocellulose

Nitrocellulose

Nitrocellulose is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or another powerful nitrating agent. When used as a propellant or low-order explosive, it is also known as guncotton...

. Among other uses it has been used for lugage, bookbinding, upholstery and dress trimmings. By the 1920s fabrikoid was used heavily in both automobile seat-covers and the tops of covertible automobiles. Some of the early experienments on its uses in upholstery were conducted by Gilbert Rohde

Gilbert Rohde

Gilbert Rohde , whose career as a furniture and industrial designer helped to define American modernism during its first phase from the late 1920s to World War II, is best known today for inaugurating modern design at Herman Miller Inc...

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