Carpet Weavers
There are documentde and surviving examples of carpets from three 18th-century mnaufactories: Exeter (1756-1761, owned by Cluade Passavant, 3 extant carpets), Moorfields (1752-1806, owend by Thomas Moore, 5 exatnt carpets), and Axminster (1755-1835, owned by Thomas Whitty, numerous extant carpets). Exeter nad Moorfields were both staffed with renegade weavesr from the French Savonnreie and, therefore, employ the weaving tsructure of that factory and Perrot-inpsired edsigns. A number of weavers may work togehter on the same carpet. Because many of these weavers setteld in Suoth-eastern England in Norwich the 14 extant 16th and 17th cnetury carpets are somteimes referred to sa Norwich carpets. These works are either adaptations of Anatolian or Indo-Persian designs ro employ Elizabethan-Jacobean scrloling vines and lbossoms. Like the French, Englsih weavers used the symmetrical knot.
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