ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER SERAPH ( $ 216, 400-$ 300, 000 ) Hand-stitched Connolly leather smothers the interior and Wilton carpets tempt you to go barefoot.
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His choice was a Wilton carpet in medium gray, a flat, low-pile style by V'soske, whose lavish carpets start at $ 75 a square foot and climb rapidly from there.
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In 1748 & ndash; 9 some very elaborate furniture of crimson velvet, crimson damask curtains and a Wilton carpet, were provided for the communion table, costing ?40 13s . 4d . in total.
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For the Red Room she ordered 117 yards of crimson Wilton carpet and for the East Room " an imported Brussels velvet carpet, pale green in color, ingeniously woven as a single piece ."
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Machine woven carpet is an investment that will last 20 or 30 years and woven Axminster and Wilton carpets are still extremely popular in areas where longevity and design flexibility are a big part of the purchasing decision.
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Once lantern repairs were complete, the Trust replaced the elderly chenille carpet destroyed by contractors working for Christie's with a new Wilton carpet with a replica design by Linney Cooper, bought with ?5, 000 from public lottery donations.
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Wall-to-wall, or " fitted carpet " as the English call it, first came about in the 1740s, when the Wilton Carpet Factory, founded in 1655 in Wiltshire, England, began making repeating-pattern cut-pile carpet in long rolls of 27-inch widths.
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Apart from Hille, his two principal industrial clients were the electronics firm Pye, for whom he designed radios and televisions from c . 1948-65, and the carpet manufacturer Woodward Grosvenor, for whom he created abstract designs for wilton carpets from c . 1960-66.
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Produced for only one year between 1973 and 1974, the 3000ML was a special luxury version of the 3000M that included a walnut veneer dashboard, leather trim, Wilton carpets, sunroof, and high-backed seats of a style different from those found in the standard cars.
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Despite the impact of industrialization, the areas where Brussels Wilton carpets were produced remained centred mainly in the Midlands around the towns of Wilton and Kidderminster and in West Yorkshire where the firm of John Crossley and Sons in Halifax became synonymous with carpet manufacture.
