United States v. Meier & Frank Co.

The merchandise now in question consists of certain embroidery-sets intended for use in kindergarten schools. Each set consists of a number of pieces of cotton cloth, cardboard, and colored yarns, with various printed patterns and some completed samples of embroidery Work, the whole loosely fastened together in a pasteboard box. The so-called cotton cloth is composed of very heavy single transverse threads which form large open interstices. Through these the colored yarn is carried so as to form embroidered figures in imitation of the given patterns. In most cases the yarn could easily be…