10 MILES OF CARPETS
IN DESIGNS FROM A YORKSHIRE ' GARDEN Ten miles of Axminster carpets in* two novel designs have been shipped from Yorkshire to the' United. States during the past year. The designs were created from flowers picked by the manufacturer from his own garden in the midst of moorland made familiar to the world by "Wuthering Heights." The flowers were sketched and incorporated in two patterns named after the home of the manufacturer and that of a fellow director. Jrt design and colouring they were so successful that a group of prominent American carpet manufacturers asked to see them displayed; in New York, During last year, trade with the United States was so good that the makers of these carpets sold more than four times as many Axminster piece good and Broadloom plain Wilton as in 1939. The flowers of Yorkshire are nowbeing arranged in other designs. Their suc-cess in the United States has already been repeated in Australia and New Zealand.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 157, 19 September 1941, Page 4
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