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Hand Stitching Carpets

Bob meets Peter Mead and learns about hand stitching carpets.
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Hand Stitching Carpets

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" -Early carpets were made in Brussels and they call them low-level loops. That's still the term used today and this is before they started cutting them to get plush pile and of course they have small looms and that's why they are only 2/3 of a yard. Peter Mead is an Englishman who's been over here for?"

" -25 years."

" -25 years and this is his trade. Now Peter, we just saw you basically bend them back and you've already marked off the?"

" -I've marked off the pattern where I want to saw the carpets together,"

" -Uh huh."

" -And I'm going to come down to three points and I've put in a locking stitch in basically."

" -And it's a little bit like, this always reminds me of sail makers and stuff because the types of needles and I guess watching a man so good like this"

" -Uh huh."

" -Is so reminiscent of sails. What kind of thread is it that you have to use?"

" -This is wax linen thread made in Alabama"

" -And these are Wilton carpets made in England."

" -Exactly."

" -And of course in any place that they're doing a high style house from the early 1800s here in America, you're apt to find fancy patterned Wilton carpets like this."

" -Exactly."

" -And then?"

" -And then I saw the carpet together with about a quarter of an inch stitch made with a little bit less."

" -What kind of a stitch is that? That's the basic stitch, right?"

" -Just the basic stitch over and over and you just keep going until you reach..."

" -You just keep rolling along. Okay."

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