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2. Axminster Carpets - Wikipedia

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   Today, Axminster Carpets is the only manufacturer to purchase, wash, card, spin and dye its own yarn before weaving the carpet itself. [7] To celebrate 250 years of carpet weaving in Axminster, in 2005 a commemorative rug was produced. Paraded by the company's weavers through the town, it was then blessed by the Bishop of Exeter and presented ...

3. Alexander Smith Carpet Mills Historic District - Wikipedia

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   The Alexander Smith Carpet Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. It includes 85 contributing buildings. It encompasses 19 stylistically varied mill buildings and six rows of workers' housing. They were developed between 1871 and 1930 in the vicinity of northeastern Getty Square ...

4. Thomas Whitty - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Whitty (1713–1792) was an English carpet manufacturer who founded Axminster Carpets in 1755. Whitty was impressed by a large Turkish carpet he saw at Cheapside Market in London, and upon his return to Axminster he used his skills as a weaver to work out how to produce a product of similar quality. After several months work he completed ...

5. Axminster Guildhall - Wikipedia

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   Axminster Guildhall. / 50.7814; -3.0010. Axminster Guildhall is a municipal building in West Street in Axminster, a town in Devon, in England. The building, which is meeting place of Axminster Town Council, is also used as a community events venue.

6. Axminster - Wikipedia

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   Axminster is a market town and civil parish on the eastern border of the county of Devon in England. It is 28 miles (45 km) from the county town of Exeter . The town is built on a hill overlooking the River Axe which heads towards the English Channel at Axmouth , and is in the East Devon local government district.

7. Aubuchon Hardware - Wikipedia

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   History. Founded by William E. Aubuchon in 1908, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Aubuchon Hardware is the oldest family-owned and managed hardware store chain in America. With more than 100 stores in New England, Upstate New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania they have been a local mainstay for generations.