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Mohawk Industries

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Made by: Shuttleworth family (William Shuttleworth and sons)
Date: founded 1878 (Amsterdam, New York)
Place: Calhoun, Georgia
Held by: Mohawk Industries
Themes: Companies & modern tufting, Woven carpet, Machine tufting & Dalton

View at the source Cited in chapter 3, notes 40, 43 Cited in chapter 11, notes 10, 29

Cite this source

Shuttleworth family (William Shuttleworth and sons). “Mohawk Industries,” founded 1878 (Amsterdam, New York). Mohawk Industries. mohawkind.com/about/our-growth-story.php.

Research notes

A woven-carpet firm: the Shuttleworths came from England in 1875 and wove carpet in Amsterdam, NY, on secondhand looms (incorporated 1902). The 1920 merger with McCleary, Wallin & Crouse formed Mohawk Carpet Mills; the 1956 merger with Alexander Smith formed Mohasco, just as Georgia's cheaper tufted synthetic carpet took the market. Mohasco moved south (a tufted plant in Dublin, GA, and the end of Wilton/velvet weaving at Laurens, SC, by 1965); Amsterdam carpet making ended about 1968. Spun off as Mohawk Industries in a 1988 buyout; public 1992. A case study of the woven industry losing the race to tufting. Dates: 1878, 1920 and 1956 confirmed; when Mohasco first tufted is unverified (1965 Dublin is the earliest found). "World's largest flooring manufacturer" refers to all flooring by revenue, not carpet. Other pages with images: https://www.mohawkgroup.com/technical-resources/construction-types Independent sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_Industries · https://encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/mohawk-industries-inc · https://www.usitc.gov/publications/tea/pub160.pdf (1965 USITC report)