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Cabin Crafts

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Made by: Frederick R. Westcott and G. Lamar Westcott
Date: 1930s (founding year not found)
Place: Dalton, Georgia
Held by: Cabin Crafts
Themes: Machine tufting & Dalton, Companies & modern tufting

View at the source Cited in chapter 4, note 17

Cite this source

Frederick R. Westcott and G. Lamar Westcott. “Cabin Crafts,” 1930s (founding year not found). Cabin Crafts. georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/chenille-bedspreads.

Research notes

Dalton chenille-bedspread firm founded by the Westcott brothers (archival photo records), one of the companies that moved bedspread-making from hand to machine. Its Jess Spencer Kile filed a tufting-machine patent in 1939 (issued 1945; see pat-us2389914a). Around 1950 bedspread firms such as Cabin Crafts, and newcomers like Barwick, began using tufting machines to make room-size carpet. Why it matters: a textbook example of the bedspread-to-broadloom path. The repo already holds a photo of Cabin Crafts executives (photo-cabin-crafts-arnall). Dates: founding year not found; a 1941 photo shows it operating. Later ownership (often linked to West Point-Pepperell, whose carpet business Shaw bought in 1987) not confirmed in searches. No company site exists; sourceUrl is the Georgia Encyclopedia. Other pages with images: https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_wtf229 · https://bandyheritagecenter.pastperfectonline.com/photo/95EA3F4C-3D88-4C76-8BE6-581372259612 Independent sources: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=171571 · https://westgatextiletrail.com/?p=3235 Research note (Oct 2026): facts taken from search-result summaries; the pages themselves weren't opened. Check the cited pages before quoting.