The range of products made by the Lily Mills Company range from regular sewing thread, yarns for hand weaving, and heavy rug yarns.  To help promote their yarns they also published instruction booklets and marketed small looms for the home weaver. Lily Mills Co. was located in Shelby, in North Carolina.  It was founded in 1903 as the Lily Mill and Power Company. It was one of many mills of a growing industry in the area, and by the 1940s, there were twenty spinning mills in the Shelby area, some of which were also making products that was marketed by the Lily Mills Co. The Lily Mills Co. sponsored the Lily Mills Women’s Knitting Club and a supplier and supporter of the famous Penland Craft School in North Carolina.  The Lily Mills Company and the Belding Hemingway Company merged in 1960 ending the Lily Mills Co. history as Lily Mills Co. This is two rolls of fast color carpet wrap for waving; it is 800 yards long, weighting 8 oz. of yarn per roll, and the Art. Number is 414 and was made in the 1950s. One roll of yarn, the color is Turquoise 936, and second roll is Yellow 841. These two rolls of yarn have not been open or used to the best of my knowledge and have been packed away for the last 40 years.

Note:  A company in or around 1950s made this yarn and the company is no longer in, business, I only have these two rolls and cannot get any more. Therefore, if you are going to buy the yarn for a project make sure there is enough yarn to finish your project. I have no more of this yarn.

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