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The ‘Granddaddy’ of Machine-Made Rugs

There’s a certain charm to Eden, N.C. The town of 15,000, situated on the Dan River about 35 miles north of Greensboro and just south of Martinsville, Va., was named an All-American City in 2011 and ...
Home Accents Today

Building a better machine-made rug

There are numerous reasons machine-made rugs continue to gain more and more of the rug market share. They’re (generally) less expensive at the retail level, so consumers can keep up with the latest ...
Hartford Courant

Marshall Field’s created ‘the wonder rug of America,’ once touted at the Chicago World’s Fair. But after decades, the miracle carpet’s era is ending.

Most of the machines sit silent. Among them are the Axminster looms that from 1928 until 2019 made Karastan’s most famous creation: a worsted wool rug that so convincingly replicated the design and ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Marshall Field’s created ‘the wonder rug of America,’ once touted at the Chicago World’s Fair. But after decades, the miracle carpet’s era is ending.

Sounds change with the seasons, but this spring, among the usual mix of bird song and lawn mowers, there are notable silences in this town of 15,000 people. First, the mill whistle that used to signal ...