A rich carpet resource. (carpet collection of Woodward Grosvenor and Company, Ltd.) From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: September 1, 1997| Author: Ledes, Allison Eckardt | COPYRIGHT 1997 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Woodward Grosvenor and Company, Ltd has a vast collection of period floor coverings. The firm, which started operating in 1790, has more than 10,000 gouache point papers for all the patterns it has produced in its archives.

The historian's quest to learn what types of carpets were used in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century interiors is severely limited because examples from the period rarely survive. Period depictions of interiors are useful for determining patterns, but it is diff...

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