Miles Of Carpets

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 74, 16 September 1941, Page 4

Miles Of Carpets

DESIGNS FROM A YORKSHIRE

GARDEN

WAR-TIME BRITISH INDUSTRY

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 tiiat of a fellow director. In 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 goods and Broadloom plain Wilton as in 1939. The flowers of Yorkshire are now being arranged in other designs. Their success in the United States has already been repeated in Australia and New Zealand.