First Had Carpet

Skilled weavers produced carpets and rugs with handloom technology.

First had carpet.

Carpet was woven wool. In its early years american carpet makers encountered the same problem as other textile manufacturers imports. Others opened during the early 1800s in new england. Included in that area was beattie manufacturing company in little falls new jersey a company that operated until 1979.

In fact i m going to compare wall to wall carpeting to electric stoves in the way they both epitomized a whole new level of comfort and convenience that had become accessible affordable and desirable to the masses for the first time. Carpet industry emerged at the end of the eighteenth century. Jewish scholar by the name of isaac ben sherira. It can with more certainty be traced to the beginning of the mughal dynasty in the early sixteenth century when the last successor of timur babar extended his rule from kabul to india to found the mughal empire.

To the american family of the 1950s on carpeting was a luxury previously out of reach. The carpet industry in the united states began in 1791 when william sprague started the first woven carpet mill in philadelphia. There are at least two versions of the tale of king solomon and his magic carpet. Carpet weaving may have been introduced into the area as far back as the eleventh century with the coming of the first muslim conquerors the ghaznavids and the ghauris from the west.

Others opened during the early 1800s in new england. One of these is said to have been written by a 13 th century ad.