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Tai Ping Carpets

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Made by: Sir Lawrence and Sir Horace Kadoorie with partners
Date: founded 1956
Place: Hong Kong
Held by: Tai Ping Carpets
Themes: Companies & modern tufting, Global diffusion of tufting, Hand-tufting tools & the gun

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Sir Lawrence and Sir Horace Kadoorie with partners. “Tai Ping Carpets,” founded 1956. Tai Ping Carpets. taipingcarpets.com/about/heritage.

Research notes

Founded to keep Chinese carpet craft alive and employ refugees. First workshop in Tuen Mun (1956); main factory in Tai Po from 1959. The early breakthrough was switching from hand-knotting to hand-tufting; engineer Anthony Yeh developed a motorised hand-tufting gun (dated 1960 by a trade source, motorised 1973 per the Hong Kong Heritage Project). Later machine-tufted carpet; today residential, hospitality, aviation and yacht work. Dates: 1956 and founders confirmed; gun date conflicting (1960 vs 1973 motorisation). Don't say Tai Ping "invented hand-tufting". Other pages with images: https://www.taipingcarpets.com/collections/atelier-by-fang-collection · https://www.taipingcarpets.com/collections/vestige Independent sources: https://industrialhistoryhk.org/?p=5060 · https://www.hongkongheritage.org/nodes/view/25832 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Ping_Carpets