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Wilton takes off Parliament, and public buildings across the country. Under the new
The new type of carpet rapidly became popular. By the end of the 18th management, hand-knotted Axminsters continued to be woven
WHY MEASURE SQUARE century, several local weavers were manufacturing Wilton cut pile alongside machine-woven Wiltons.
IS USED BY THOUSANDS carpet and the town had become famous. However, Wilton enjoyed the Wilton and the wars
monopoly for only a few years; by 1749, the weavers of Kidderminster
OF COMMERCIAL had learned the method and began to compete, evading the patent by The factory was kept open during the First World War, but during the
FLOORING COMPANY’S changing a minor part of the loom; a ball rather than an anchor. Second, carpet production ceased, the factory being turned over to net
Despite competition from the wily weavers of Kidderminster, by the garnishing, tarpaulin-making and tent repairing. The dye house was
1750s, Wilton carpets were being supplied to the Royal family and turned into a laundry for washing blankets; upwards of a million
WE PROVIDE EXCELLENT various country estates. blankets were laundered.
SERVICE www.measuresquare.co.uk At the end of the war, the factory resumed carpet making but the
heyday of hand-knotted carpets was over, and production stopped in
1958; the last made at Wilton was for the chancel of Guilford
> LIVE SUPPORT
> LIVE SUPPORT COMPARE Cathedral. By that time the factory was manufacturing machine-woven
> YOUTUBE VIDEOS MEASURE SQUARE Axminster carpets, having introduced spool Axminster looms in 1950.
The first gripper Axminster looms were introduced in 1957 and housed
> KNOWLEDGE BASE in a new, purpose-built weaving shed. This type of loom is still used in
the factory, alongside newer high-speed technology.
> ACADEMY TRAINING WHY MEASURE SQUARE IS USED BY In 1944 the factory was taken over by Solent Carpets, and the following
> SUPPORT PORTALS THOUSANDS OF COMMERCIAL FLOORING COMPANY’S decades saw a series of further management changes. In the meantime,
ACROSS THE GLOBE AND IN THE UK the manufacture of tufted carpets had begun in the United States and
spread to England in the 1950s. Tufted carpets were easier to make and
became popular with the public, leading to a new venture by Solent and
Wilton when they jointly formed the Hampshire Industrial Textile
Company to manufacture tufted carpet in Romsey.

In 1970 both businesses came under the control of Youghal of Ireland
The horizontal Beam Loom was developed from a who in turn were taken over by Coats Viyella in 1989 who closed the
cloth loom and used, with modifications, until 1936 dye house in the early 1990s. Since then, wool has been bought
ready-dyed. In 1995 Coats sold its carpet division to Carpets
International, who immediately announced the closure of both the
Machine made and hand knotted Wilton and Romsey factories, resulting in the loss of 360 jobs. The
During the latter part of the 19th century, the factory changed hands, designs, customers and brand names of the Wilton factory were
eventually becoming Yates and Company. In the 1870s William Morris transferred to other plants in the UK.
was commissioning machine-made Brussels, Wilton and hand-knotted
Axminster carpets from the company.
At that time the factory employed about 300 people, a significant
reduction from the 1,000 or so employed 70 years previously, but
owing to the invention of the jacquard loom and other improved
methods of weaving, produced similar quantities of carpet. Many of the
weavers were children under 14 years of age who worked on what was
known as the alternate day system allowing them to attend school three
days a week.
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walk throughs - create product and service reciepes - select products from pull down lists for each room - A renaissance came on 10 April 1995, the Wilton Carpet Factory
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anything to create comprehensive worksheets profile functions - no random tile function re-opened with just 11 employees. A month later, the first of the

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> Product Assignment - Drag and drop assign to single > Estimation - Need to click estimate button everytime you Edward VII visit in 1908 Axminster looms was fired up to start weaving the new company’s first
or multiple locations - flash cove multiple rooms or single modify the diagram - no multiplyer functionality - no phase order, soon followed by a commission from the company’s pseudo
walls in one click - Profiling save templates for easy installation functions - no cloud share function
resuse - random tile pattern - assign tiles by percentage - guardian, the Earl of Pembroke, for the private library of Wilton House.
the most comprehensive tile functionality in the industry > Reporting - Map data to XL spreadsheet The 20th century
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> Estimation - Auto estimate option -manual cutsheet In 1898, the managing director’s sudden death revealed serious The company has continued to grow in the following three decades,
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estimate by phase - comprehensive estimation output options financial irregularities. This time, Sidney, 14th Earl of Pembroke producing Wilton, Axminster and tufted carpets for commercial and
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