A History of Tufted Rugs

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Catalogue of floor coverings : series 1926-1927, catalog no. 20 / Simon Manges & Son

Trade catalogue · not yet checked at the source

Made by
Simon Manges & Son
Date
1926
Held by
HathiTrust Digital Library
Number
HathiTrust nnc2.ark:/13960/s211wtg9b8r (Columbia copy)
Themes
Woven carpet, Trade catalogs & marketing

Cite this source

Simon Manges & Son. “Catalogue of floor coverings : series 1926-1927, catalog no. 20 / Simon Manges & Son,” 1926. HathiTrust nnc2.ark:/13960/s211wtg9b8r (Columbia copy), HathiTrust Digital Library. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc2.ark:/13960/s211wtg9b8r.

Research notes

Trade catalogue of floor coverings, series 1926-1927, catalog no. 20. The earliest-dated volume matching "broadloom" in HathiTrust full-text search (results begin in the 1920-1929 decade: this catalogue, then Price's directory of the floor covering trade, 1927, and Rug Profits from 1929). View status not recorded. Why it matters: Woven carpet, open question "when 'broadloom' came into use": HathiTrust shows the word in trade use by 1926-27 and nothing earlier in its scanned text. Not a primary source for "Bigelow's first broadloom, 1877", which this search did not support. Found: HathiTrust full-text search, "broadloom" (filtered to 1920-1929), 2026-10-28.