The carpet weaving industry performed a key position within the revival of Chiprovtsi within the 1720s after the devastation of the failed 1688 Chiprovtsi Uprising in opposition to Ottoman rule. The western traveller Ami Boué, who visited Chiprovtsi in 1836–1838, reported that “mainly younger women, under shelters or in corridors, engage in carpet weaving. They earn only five francs a month and the fee was even decrease before”. By 1868, the annual manufacturing of carpets in Chiprovtsi had surpassed 14,000 sq. metres. In 1896, virtually 1,four hundred ladies from Chiprovtsi and the region have been engaged in carpet weaving. In 1920, the locals founded the Manual Labour carpet-weaving cooperative society, the first of its type within the nation. Carpets have been crafted based on traditional designs, however in recent years it’s as much as the shoppers to resolve the sample of the carpet they’ve ordered. The manufacturing of a single three by 4 m (9.8 by thirteen.1 ft) carpet takes about 50 days; primarily ladies have interaction in carpet weaving.

Axminster carpet was a unique ground covering first made in a factory founded at Axminster, Devon, in 1755 by the fabric weaver Thomas Whitty. Resembling considerably the Savonnerie carpets produced in France, Axminster carpets have been symmetrically knotted by hand in wool on woollen warps, and had a weft of flax or hemp. Like the French carpets, they usually featured Renaissance architectural or floral patterns; others mimicked oriental patterns. Similar carpets had been produced at the similar time in Exeter … Read More