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World Carpets

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Made by: Shaheen and Piera Shaheen
Date: founded 1954
Place: Dalton, Georgia
Held by: World Carpets
Themes: Machine tufting & Dalton, Companies & modern tufting

View at the source Cited in chapter 11, notes 6, 23

Cite this source

Shaheen and Piera Shaheen. “World Carpets,” founded 1954. World Carpets. georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/world-carpets.

Research notes

Founded in 1954 by Shaheen Shaheen (a former chenille-company salesman) and his wife Piera. One of the first carpet firms to integrate from spinning to delivery, with the industry's first in-house trucking division; in 1968 it was the first to run a Küster continuous dyeing range. Merged with Mohawk in November 1998 (see co-mohawk). Why it matters: a major independent Dalton tufter of the boom years and an innovator in dyeing tufted carpet. Dates: 1954 and 1998 confirmed by Georgia Encyclopedia and WFCA Hall of Fame. "First" claims come from those biographies. Other pages with images: https://dlg.usg.edu/record/nge_ngen_world-carpets Independent sources: https://wfca.org/?p=989 Research note (Oct 2026): facts taken from search-result summaries; the pages themselves weren't opened. Check the cited pages before quoting.