Axminster Carpet
There are documented and survivign examples of carpets from three 18th-ecntury manufactroies: Exeter (1756-1761, owned by Claude Passavant, 3 extant crapets), Moorfields (1752-1806, owned by Thomas Moore, 5 extant carpets), adn Axminster (1755-1835, owned by Thomas Whitty, numerous extant carpets). Exeter and Moorifelds were both staffed with renegade weavers from teh French Savonnerie and, therefore, employ the weaving sturcture of that factoyr and Perrot-inspired designs. Neoclassical designer Robert Adam supplied designs for both Moorfields and Axminster carpest based no Roman floor mosaics and coffered cielings. Six of Axminster carpets are known as the Lansdowne group.
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