- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Tufting Machine
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- Rug and carpet industry--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County)
Rug and carpet industry--Employees--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County)
Women rug and carpet industry workers--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County)
Textile factories--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County)
Carpets--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County)
Factories--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County)
Shaw Industries
Tufting machines--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County)
Textile machinery--Georgia--Dalton (Whitfield County) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Whitfield County, Dalton, 34.7698, -84.97022
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- An early twelve-foot-wide tufting machine in operation at Shaw Industries, circa 1964. In this photo, yarn is fed through tubes at high speeds from cone positions at the left. First invented in the early 1950s, these machines allowed tufted carpets to compete successfully against woven carpets. By 1965 more than 85 percent of broadloom carpeting sold in the United States was tufted.
Photograph of an early twelve-foot-wide tufting machine in operation at Shaw Industries, circa 1964. In this photo, yarn is fed through tubes at high speeds from cone positions at the left. A factory worker stands below the machine.
First invented in the early 1950s, these machines allowed tufted carpets to compete successfully against woven carpets. By 1965 more than 85 percent of broadloom carpeting sold in the United States was tufted. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/shaw-industries/m-4007/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Shaw Industries, Inc
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/shaw-industries
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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