Carpet museum to get grant
27th September 2010
Carpet Museum Trust has been provided with a £1.7 million fund to establish the centre in Stour vale Mill, which was built in 1855 and was originally itself a carpet factory, the BBC reports.
A vintage working loom from the Victorian period will be one of the features of the museum, which will focus on Kidderminster's role at the centre of Britain's carpet-making industry.
The development may be regarded by some as a reflection of a bygone age, but, while production methods have been mnodernised, both Kidderminster and the UK still has a carpet industry.
Proof of this at Warwickshire-based UK Flooring Direct is partly demonstrated by the firm's production of its own carpets, while supplier Georgian also has its headquarters in the west Midlands, in Tamworth.
Cormar Carpets - which produces the majority of products available through UK Flooring Direct - makes these at two sites in Lancashire.
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