You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. Beiges Greens Multis. Browns Blues. Taupe Reds. Golds Oranges. Carpet Hard Surface. Search: Search. Others opened during the early s in New England. In , Erastus Bigelow permanently reshaped the industry with the invention of the power loom for weaving carpets.
Bigelow's loom, which doubled carpet production the first year after its creation and tripled it by , is now part of the Smithsonian Institution's collections.
He continued to devote his life to innovation, 35 separate patents were issued to him between and Bigelow introduced the first broadloom carpet in The power loom with Jacquard mechanism was developed in , and Brussels carpet was first manufactured by the Clinton Company of Massachusetts. The Brussels loom was slightly modified, making possible the manufacture of Wilton carpet.
In , four Shuttleworth brothers brought 14 looms from England and established their manufacturing plant in Amsterdam, New York. In , the company introduced a new carpet, Karnak Wilton. Its instant success was phenomenal. Flooded with orders, a new building had to be constructed to exclusively handle Karnak production. Weavers worked four and five years without changing either the color or pattern on their looms. He and Alexander Smith combined, forming a very successful carpet company.
Alexander Smith was elected to Congress in , but died on the evening of election day. Sixteen hundred people were employed at his factory at the time of his death. During World War I, the carpet looms were converted to make tent duck and navy blankets. Karastan's rug mill was established in , and introduced the first Karastan rugs to the public in Alexander Smith, Bigelow, and Karastan are companies continuing today as divisions of Mohawk Industries, headquartered in Georgia.
There are many manufacturers today producing both simulations of antique designs and updated "oriental" type rugs by both weaving and tufting processes. Northwest Georgia, with its hard-packed clay, poor farmland, and rolling hills was among the last areas of Georgia settled. Rich in a heritage of Cherokee Indians and Civil War battles, that northern corner of the state was rugged and spawned people who were independent and self-sufficient. With the invention of the automobile, a cottage industry arose in the homes along "Peacock Alley", U.
Highway It was designated in and signed in Women would sell quilts to drivers along this popular North-South route. From this early origin, the carpet tufting industry grew in Dalton. Today, carpet mills remain major area employers.
The carpet industry in the United States began in when William Sprague started the first woven carpet mill in Philadelphia.
Others opened during the 's in New England. In honor of founder Edward Dalton White the city changes the name to Dalton.
That same year the Western and Atlantic Railroad is completed in the small town. Its location near the railroad would greatly affect the destiny of this North Georgia town.
Shortly after the start of the 20th century a cottage industry starts in Dalton. Catherine Evans Whitener, using an American tufting technique known as "candlewick embroidery" begins making bedspreads. The number of bedspreads ordered quickly surpasses the quantity she can make and she teaches others the skill of hand-tufting. Carpet in the United States had three salient characteristics in Carpets were 1 woven on power looms out of 2 wool in 3 mills located in the Northeastern United States.
In just one short decade, each of those critical elements had changed dramatically. Roehmer, a spokesman for the General Services Administration, which is responsible for buying such goods for the federal government.
To fulfill its current contract with the GSA, Wickes has offered to install new carpeting like that being put into the Florida schools. Kaufman, the Wickes director, has said there was no evidence that the fired employees were paid off or otherwise compensated for submitting phony results to win contracts. Competitors, however, note the cutthroat nature of the business of selling carpet. Some say the situation points out what can happen in an industry where the competition gets a little too intense.
Billboards touting more than a dozen carpet outlet stores lure shoppers to Connector 3, where they can find bargains in brands such as WestPoint Pepperell, Coronet, Shaw, World and other big names. Across town to the west, the view from atop Dug Gap Mountain--where Rebel and Union troops skirmished in an battle while Gen. William Sherman routed his soldiers south through Resaca--offers plenty of evidence why Dalton is to carpet what Detroit is--or was--to automobiles. Throughout the town and surrounding Whitfield County and the four bordering counties--Murray, Catoosa, Gordon and Walker--hundreds of massive, low-flung plants radiate out through the flats and into the tree-covered hills, where many more sites have been cleared on the red Georgia clay.
By the standards of many industries, this growth has come relatively recently, although the carpet business has roots in a much older industry: hand-tufted bedspreads. A young girl named Catherine Evans is credited with selling the first of these spreads with a fluffy yarn pattern back around After World War II, multi-needle tufting machines made it possible to make wider products, and the carpet industry was born.
It surged in the s, always sticking close to Dalton, with its plentiful supply of energy and water. On peak days, the plants around Dalton use a total of as much as 50 million gallons of water, primarily for the dyeing process. The industry returned last year to the peak production levels of , before the country entered a long recession.
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