MAGIC ENGLISH CARPET.
COLOURS TO STAND FOR CEN-
TORIES
Most of us look upon Turkey carpets and carpets made in the East as things which surpass all European products.
But there is a magic in our English carpets which the Eastern manufacturers cannot imitate, as was revealed the other day by some British dye experts.
Certain of the rich men of Turkey, when they require specially beautiful carpets, the rich colours of which are to stand the test of centuries without fading, have actually sent over the designs to England and have had their “Turkey” carpets made in Lancashire and the materials dyed in Bradford.
We are apt to wring our hands at German progress in the dye industry, but some of our dyes have never been surpassed, and so it comes about that many of the most beautiful carpets of the East have been woven in England, and coloured with British dyes! English people sometimes buy them back again years afterwards, little knowing that their real Turkey carpets are every bit as English as they are.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4933, 1 February 1926, Page 4
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177MAGIC ENGLISH CARPET. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4933, 1 February 1926, Page 4
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