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To view our collection of museum objects and artifacts relating to the carpet industry, enter 'Acc' as the RefNo, then enter specific words in the AnyText field to bring up a hit list of our current holdings.

To help in your searching, please see the list below of reference codes (RefNo) for some of the collections that are available in the archives extensive catalogue :

CARPET MANUFACTURING COMPANIES
( Kidderminster area )
Adam Carpets Ltd (AD)
Bond Worth (BW)
Brintons (BRN)
Brockway (BKY)
C. P. Carpets (CP)
Crucial Trading Ltd (CRU)
Carpet Trades Ltd (CTL)
Carpet Manufacturing Company (CMC)
Carpet Museum Trust (CMT)
Carpets International Ltd (CIL)
Carpets of Kidderminster (COK)
Carpets of Worth (COW)
Charles Harrison (CH)
Chlidema (CLA)
Cooke Bros (COO)
Coloroll (COL)
Crossley Carpets (CRS)
David Bayliss Carpets (DBC)
Dutfield & Quayle (DQ)
E. A. Broome and Son (EAB)
Edward Hughes (EH)
Empire (EMP)
Enterprise Weaving (ENT)
Frank Stone (FS)
Georgian [Goodacre] (GEO)
Gilt Edge (GIL)
Greatwich (GTW)
Grosvenor Wilton Company (GWC)
James Humphries (HUM)
Jellyman (JEL)
Kidderminster Spinning Company (KSC)
Lea Ltd (LEA)
Long Meadow Felt Company (LMF)
Master Weavers (MWR)
Minster (MIN)
Morris (MOR)
James Morton & Sons (JM)
Naylors (NAY)
Quayle & Tranter (QT)
Richard Smith (RS)
Southwell (HMS)
Spilsbury & Wilcox (SPW)
Sultana (SUL)
Textile Manufacturing Company (TMC)
Tomkinsons (TOM)
Tomkinson & Adam (TAA)
Victoria (VIC)
William Hill Ltd (WH)
H. R. Willis (HRW)
Woodward Grosvenor (WG)

  Kidderminster Codes (12kb)

ARTIFICIAL COLLECTIONS
Carpet Foundation (CF)
Carpet Museum Trust (CMT)
Oral History (COH)
Carpet Samples (CS)
Exhibition & Display Material (EX)
Historical Collections (HC)
Kidderminster Historical Collections (KHC)
Maps & Plans (MAP)
Miscellaneous Deposits (MD)
Moving Images (MI)
Photographs (PH)
Price Lists (PL)
Sound Recordings (SR)
Trade Brochures (TB)
UK Historical Collections (UKHC)
UK Trade Brochures (UKTB)

  Artificial Codes (10kb)

CARPET MANUFACTURING COMPANIES
( Rest of the UK )
Abingdon, Abingdon, Oxfordshire (ABI)
Avena, Halifax, Yorkshire (AVE)
Associated Weavers, Bradford, Yorks (AW)
Axminster Carpets, Axminster, Devon (AXC)
Blackwater Marketing, Truro, Cornwall (BLC)
Blackwood Morton & Sons, Kilmarnock, Scotland (BMK)
John Bright & Brothers, Rochdale, Lancs (BRG)
T. H. Chamberlain, London (CHM)
Clandeboye Carpets, Newtownards, Northern Ireland (CLA)
Couristan, St. Helens, Merseyside (COU)
John Crossley & Sons, Halifax, Yorks (CRS)
Crowthers, Brighouse, Yorks (CRW)
Cooke Sons & Co, Liversedge & Heckmondwike, Yorks (CSC)
Donaghadee Carpets, Donaghadee, Northern Ireland (DNG)
T. F. Firth & Sons Ltd, Heckmondwike & Brighouse, Yorks (FIR)
Flotex Ltd, Ripley, Derbys (FLT)
Forbo-Nairn Ltd, Kirkcaldy, Scotland (FN)
Gaskell Limited, Rishton and Bacup, Lancashire (GAS)
Greenwood and Coope (Cormar Carpets), Bury, Lancashire (GC)
Goodacre & Sons, Kendal, Westmorland (GOO)
William C. Gray & Sons Ltd, Ayr, Scotland (GRY)
Halifax Carpets, Halifax, Yorks (HAL)
Heckmondwike Manufacturing Co, Heckmondwike, Yorks (HEC)
A. V. Humphries, London (HMP)
Holmbury Carpets, Ramsbottom, Lancashire (HOL)
Homfray & Co Ltd, Sowerby Bridge, Yorks (HOM)
Hothfield Carpets, Carlton New Mills, Skipton, Yorkshire (HOT)
Henry Widnell & Stewart Ltd, Eskbank & Bonnyrigg, Scotland (HWS)
Illingworth Carpets, Shelf Mills, Shelf, Nr Halifax, Yorkshire (ILL)
William Jones & Co [Gloucester] Ltd, Gloucester (JON)
Kossett Carpets Ltd, Brighouse, Yorks (KOS)
Lancaster Carpets, Denton, Manchester (LAN)
John Lyle & Co, Glasgow, Scotland (LYL)
Hugh Mackay & Co, Durham, County Durham (MCY)
Alexander Morton Sons & Co, Lancaster, Lancs (MTN)
Newhey Carpets, Newhey, Rochdale, Lancashire (NEW)
William Pownall & Sons Ltd, Burnley, Lancs (PWN)
Regency Carpets, Northern Ireland (REG)
Ryalux Ltd, Rochdale, Lancs (RYL)
Sykes & Tunnicliffe Ltd, Almondbury, Yorks (SAT)
Shaw Carpets Ltd, Barbsley, Yorks (SHW)
The Solent Carpet Company Ltd, Southampton, Hants (SOL)
Spence Bryson Ltd, Bangor, Co. Down, Northern Ireland (SPE)
A. F. Stoddard & Co Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland (STD)
Steeles Carpets, Bloxham, Oxon (STL)
James Templeton & Co, Glasgow, Scotland (TEM)
Trafford Carpets, Manchester, Lancs (TRA)
Ulster Carpets, Portadown, Northern Ireland (ULS)
Waring & Gillow, London and Lancaster (WRG)
The Warwick Carpet Co Ltd, Warwick, Warwicks (WAR)
Edward Webb & Sons [Worcester] Ltd, Worcester, Worcs (WEB)
Wilton Royal, Wilton, Wilts (WIL)
Youghal Carpets Ltd, Cork. Eire (YGL)

  UK Codes (18kb)

BOOKS IN STOCK
Tip: When using these codes in the 'RefNo' field, they should be used as wildcards (e.g. WL*) for best results.
General Titles (GT)
Spinning (S)
Wool (WL)
Dyeing Finishing (DY)
Design (DSN)
Journals (J)
Periodicals (PE)
Dictionaries, Indexes, Glossaries (REF)
Man Made Fibres (MMF)
Testing, Lab Techniques, Identification (LAB)
Natural Fibres (NF)
Investment, Business (BUS)
Textile Fibres (TF)
Carpets (CPT)


Note:
The archives collections are being added to on a regular basis. These code lists will continue to expand as the collections grow.



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