NOBLES TAKE UP CARPET MAKING.
Carpet weaving is the latest industry to be invaded by aristocratic people bent on adding to incomes, or finding work lor their tenantry. Among them is the Duchess of Sutherland, who has started looms at’ Helmsdale in Sutherlandshire, in order to help the women affected by the decline in the Highland fisheries. As a purely business speculation, the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl ol Radnor and Sir John Dickson-Poyn-der, have opened a carpet factory at Wilton, which is a centre of the trade The industry has also been introduced into Queens County, Ireland, by the Viscount de Vesci.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 22, 8 January 1907, Page 6
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103NOBLES TAKE UP CARPET MAKING. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 22, 8 January 1907, Page 6
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