A History of Tufted Rugs

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Broadlooms and Businessmen: A History of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company

Broadlooms and Businessmen: A History of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company

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Made by
John S. Ewing and Nancy P. Norton
Date
1955
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (Harvard Studies in Business History)
Themes
Woven carpet
View at the source Cited in chapter 3, note 48

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John S. Ewing and Nancy P. Norton. Broadlooms and Businessmen: A History of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (Harvard Studies in Business History), 1955. archive.org/details/broadloomsbusine0000ewin.

Research notes

Bigelow-Sanford's history, written from the company's records: the main secondary source for Bigelow's power looms and for broadloom (open question: Bigelow's first broadloom, 1877, and when "broadloom" came into use). Access (checked Oct 2026): scanned on the Internet Archive but restricted to print-disabled readers; otherwise a library copy (Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL160421W). Cited in Deaton, Bedspreads to Broadloom (1993), bibliography pp. 209–217 (transcribed in research/deaton-sources.md).