Kidderminster rug

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The Kidderminster carpet is a carpet with a double weave consisting of several warp and weft systems.

It is named after the English town of Kidderminster and is also known as the reversible or church carpet. The carpet has no pile and different colored chains between the upper and lower fabric alternate so that a different colored or negative pattern is created on the underside. The pattern itself is the same on both sides.

A triple layer of fabric is called a treeply or Scottish carpet .

literature

  • Alfred Halscheidt: Textiles from A to Z. BoD-Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-84485-871-6 , p. 95.
  • Carl Hartmann: Popular handbook of general and special technology: or the rational practice of the chemical and mechanical trade according to the latest views and inventions. Volume 2, Carl Friedrich Amelang, Berlin 1841, p. 333.