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besty rossy
The Carpet is said to be imported to England from Turkey in the Tudor Times!!The first carpets were textiles laid on floors, then patterns were added and the face of the carpet was enhanced to be softer fuzzier probably inspired by skins and pelts. Before central heating, they added warmth and beauty and were easier on the feet.The Berber tribesmen made wool camel blankets that were adopted by the English & became the rage as "rugs" in Europe in the 1700's. Rugs are thought of as movable works of art and date back over 4,000 years in China. Carpet in the modern sense goes back to the weaving looms created by the competitive English & French.
In England it was the Axminster & Kidderminster looms and in France it was the Jacquard loom that made carpets more than rugs and greatly speed production when they hooked them up to a water wheel for power. from the 1700's to the 1940's woven & wool ruled the carpet business with names like Mohawk, Bigelow, Downs, Alexander Smith & others, mostly made in New York & Pennsylvania.
The Carpet business changed very little till After WWII a new technology evolved from the Chenille bedspread business called TUFTING. that combined with a housing boom and the invention of NYLON, created the modern carpet industry, based close to Dalton Ga.
$30 Billion in sales each year and 3 big players (Shaw, Mohawk and Beaulieu) with 20 more niche players pretty much sum up the current flooring industry.
The US Carpet industry is a rare beast in the domestic manufacturing category. US carpet makers expoert far more than we import and are still the premier tufted carpet makers in the world.
The industry association for the Carpet makers is called the Carpet and Rug Institute in Dalton Ga.
the web site iswww.carpet-rug.org
hope that helps, if you have a specific question, just send it to me flyingcarpet1972@msn.com I will answer as much as I can.
PS i love history XX :)
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