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Sample of Kidderminster carpeting, double cloth (Dove & Co., Leeds, mid-19th century)

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Made by: Dove & Co.
Date: mid-19th century
Place: Leeds, England
Held by: Victoria and Albert Museum
Number: T.5-1959
Themes: Woven carpet

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Dove & Co. Sample of Kidderminster carpeting, double cloth (Dove & Co., Leeds, mid-19th century), mid-19th century. Victoria and Albert Museum, T.5-1959. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93057.

Research notes

V&A sample woven in double cloth with a worsted warp and a woollen weft, 'a construction particular to this type of carpet'; warp in two series, wefts in two series combining blue, white, yellow, grey, green or red. Star-and-cross design. Later than the 1740s, but it is a museum-catalogued example of the Kidderminster/ingrain structure that began in 1735. The 1842 Encyclopaedia Britannica describes the same carpet as 'composed of two plies of cloth' with right and wrong sides, the colours reversed. A related V&A Dove & Co. sample (O258620, 1850s) is triple cloth. Sources: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93057 · https://jimclifford.ca/early_encyclopedia_britannica/articles/1842/eb_7th_1842_004597.html Research note (Oct 2026): from search results; pages not opened.