Plain Carpet
Most important is the advent of plain carpet. Strangely enough, a floorcovering without a pattern was unheard of before 1900.
The first ones were runners woven only to put down over figured carpets in church aisles when the weather was bad and the feet of the pious were muddy.
Elsie de Wolfe was the daring decorator who put the first plain carpet into a house.
The fashion grew—slowly in the beginning, but by 1939 it accounted for a very sizable proportion of all the yardage manufactured in America.
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