United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.500181970/1979While the introduction of new machinery to textile factories in the 1970s resulted in workforce reductions across the state, the carpet industry of north Georgia weathered such changes, producing around 80 percent of the world's carpets in the twenty-first century.Photograph of a tufting machine in a Georgia textile factory, taken in the 1970s.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/textile-industryForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/textile-industryForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaRug and carpet industry--GeorgiaTextile machinery--GeorgiaTufting machines--GeorgiaFactories--GeorgiaTextile factories--GeorgiaCarpets--GeorgiaCarpet MachineStillImage