A History of Tufted Rugs

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Innovation in the United States Carpet Industry, 1947–1963

Innovation in the United States Carpet Industry, 1947–1963

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Made by
William A. Reynolds
Date
1968
Publisher
Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand
Themes
Machine tufting & Dalton, Woven carpet
View at the source Cited in chapter 3, note 49Cited in chapter 5, note 28

Cite this source

William A. Reynolds. Innovation in the United States Carpet Industry, 1947–1963. Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand, 1968. archive.org/details/innovationinunit0000will.

Research notes

An economic history of the years tufting overtook weaving: the core period of the broadloom boom. Access (checked Oct 2026): scanned on the Internet Archive and borrowable with a free account (Open Library gives 1967; the scan's catalogue gives 1968). Cited in Deaton, Bedspreads to Broadloom (1993), bibliography pp. 209–217 (transcribed in research/deaton-sources.md).