Help with Carpet

[Dbackfed]

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me as to what time frame this carpet/fabric appears to be from? Thanks.

[GreencoatCross]

Re: Help with Carpet

Jason,

It's woven exactly like a piece that I used to own, but the design itself looks to be later (1870's perhaps). But I'm no expert...I suggest that you get in touch with Pat Kline at Family Heirloom Weavers. He has a large collection of original materials including many whole and single widths of ingrain carpet.

[Busterbuttonboy]

Re: Help with Carpet

Is there a photo of the entire piece of carpet? My call is 1885-1900. However you can also reference the following sites:

http://www.burrows.com/stourvale/stourv10.html

http://www.burrows.com/carpet.html

If you are looking for some ingrain carpeting to field with I would highly recommend purchasing reproduction carpet instead. You'll find that once original carpet gets wet it will start to literally disintegrate on you and once dirty will be almost impossible to get clean. More importantly there are few original 18th-mid 19th century carpet samples left and its important to keep those existing ones in good shape for future reference. Plus you'll actually be able to use a reproduction piece of carpet and get some life out of it.