Kidderminster carpet museum to reopen

[Stokkie]

£50,000 grant to the museum. It seems sensible to widen the scope of the present carpet museum and try to engage more visitors. I once knew a carpet weaver who was still working in his 80s because he had no pension. I do hope this museum is a success.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyg8qe2znno

 

[Morturn]

£50,000 grant to the museum. It seems sensible to widen the scope of the present carpet museum and try to engage more visitors. I once knew a carpet weaver who was still working in his 80s because he had no pension. I do hope this museum is a success.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyg8qe2znno

I agree, it is a super museum and it would have been a sad loss to see it close

 

[Vivienne14]

Not enough history preserved about the carpet industry. My mums family were in carpet manufacture (not Midlands, but Yorkshire). When a van was delivering down in Brum we'd sometimes get a roll of carpet dropped off. And it was quality.

Pity there's not so much produced here now. At one time didn't Belgium pose a thread to the Kidderminster carpet trade ? Don't know why I thought it did.

 

[Radiorails]

Belgian carpets were usually made using other materials, like cotton, viscose or similar synthetic fibres which made the a lot cheaper that those made from a larger percentage such as wool. The principal difference was that were made ai a fixed sixes whereas in the UK the fashion was for fitted carpets.