Article: Ingrain carpets.

During the nineteenth century ingrain carpets were among the most common and affordable types of floor coverings in America.(1) These colorful, flat-surfaced, woven woolen rugs appear in many portraits and genre paintings (see Pls. II, VI, IX, XII). In 1876 a writer referring primarily to ingrain claimed that carpeting had

found its way into every dwelling, from farm house to brown-stone front...it has within the last twenty years also invaded schoolhouses, churches, counting rooms, railroad cars, courthouses, and public buildings of the people. Its use is now universal.(2)

Ingrain was woven in strips of various widths that were seamed together to create ...

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