AFTER 500 YEARS
CARPET FACTORY TO CLOSE When the Royal Wilton carpets ordered by General Smuts are completed, the famouS' carpet factory at Wilton, Wiltshire, is expected to close down. One of the rare survivors of handcraftnranship in Britain, it has been established for 500 years. The reason is the war. Only a few machines are executing orders already given. They work, the 30 or 40 men and women left of the 150 who used to be employed, in brick buildings dating back to Charles 11. In a corner of the office stands the warden’s wand marked “ Roger Tarrant Jeffery, 1698 ’’ —when William 111. gave the factory its charter and the right to style itself “ Royal.” The village has seen the evolution of British carpet-making from its earliest davs under Henry VTII. It saw the cod apse of the firm 30 years ago, and its salvation by the Earls of Pembroke, who formed a private company to carry on Wilton tradition from Wilton House.
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Evening Star, Issue 23684, 18 September 1940, Page 10
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164AFTER 500 YEARS Evening Star, Issue 23684, 18 September 1940, Page 10
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