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Bedspreads to Broadloom: The Story of the Tufted Carpet Industry

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Made by: Thomas M. Deaton
Date: 1993 (Open Library gives 1994; check the copyright page)
Themes: Machine tufting & Dalton, Chenille & candlewick

View at the source Cited in chapter 4, note 30

Cite this source

Thomas M. Deaton. Bedspreads to Broadloom: The Story of the Tufted Carpet Industry. 1993 (Open Library gives 1994; check the copyright page). openlibrary.org/works/OL8896555W.

Research notes

Industry history; Deaton's research files (company histories, periodicals, oral history transcripts with industry pioneers) are at the Bandy Heritage Center, Dalton State College. Check: you recall this book stating that DuPont invented nylon; note the page, and cite the Carothers patents for the invention itself. Availability (checked Oct 2026): no digital copy on the Internet Archive (not even for lending), none at HathiTrust, and Open Library has a catalogue record only. The author's own copy is the way in: its notes and bibliography are the trail to primary sources (see research/deaton-sources.md once transcribed). Bibliography (pp. 209–217) transcribed from Tim's copy, with a source trail: https://github.com/timeads/rug-research/blob/claude/ecstatic-hamilton-gw4o0u/research/deaton-sources.md. The book has no notes; the bibliography lists 14 books, about 40 articles, about 85 interviews (1972–1993) and 2 maps.