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The Carpet Archives Centre, Kidderminster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Peter Reed
Peter Reed*
Affiliation:
The Carpet Museum Trust, Unit 28, MCF Complex, New Road, Kidderminster, Worcs. DY10 1AQ, UK
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The Carpet Archives Centre was established in Kidderminster in late 2001 by The Carpet Museum Trust, in response to offers of archive collections by local companies in the town as the carpet industry in the United Kingdom contracted. These collections are about carpets but not just about carpets for they illustrate design, technology, social history and the close links between the industry and the town. A grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004 enabled the Trust to advance public access to these collections.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , 2007 , pp. 36 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2007

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