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117 year old original carpet (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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Was installed with the building. The original Masons would meet in this room. It's now the upstairs to a antique shop.

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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is it silk or something?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Probably wool (maybe wool and cotton) since it's held up for this long in a high traffic semi-public area and was installed around 1909.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Carpet used to be very expensive, but also serviceable. The good stuff (this looks like the good stuff) would have been wool, and it would have been taken up to clean and maintain on occasion pre-ww2. There was a lot more manual labor back then, skilled and not. So "have the maker touch it up" and "have someone beat the dust out with sticks" would both have been regular occurrences

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