| CARPETS Story of Carpets in the West Country | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6003 | |
| Catalog #: | 23243 | |
| Clip Number: | 23243-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 42 | |
| Timecode: | 01:49:43 - 01:53:17 | |
| Location: | Wilton and Axminster, Wiltshire. | |
| Year Shot: | 1955 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Palaces / Castles INDUSTRY: Textiles INTERIOR DECORATION: Floor Coverings LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Wiltshire | |
| Description: | CARPETS from Wilton and Axminster - shows both hand looms and machine operated looms. MS Stone gates to estate. LS Wilton House ("where the 9th Earl of Pembroke introduced the now famous Wilton Carpets over 300 years ago.") Wilton and Axminster, Wiltshire. MS Double cube room showing furniture. MS Painting on wall with lamp statue in foreground. MS Painting on wall pan down to carpet red carpet with flowered design. CU Flowered pattern on carpet. Wilton Royal carpet factory - old brick building with ivy on walls. Rear side of building with canal or stream alongside it. CU bundles of wool. MS man choosing wool from racks with bundles of all different colors. MS wool cutting machine; man enters, places wool on machine. CU wool on machine; man pulls down levers, begins to cut wool. CU he pulls levers back up, pushes the cut pieces of wool (c. 1 - 2 " long) into a basket; pan down to wool in basket. MS woman sits at hand loom, working; another woman enters and places some wool into box beside the machine operator. CU wool being put into little cubicles of box. MS woman tying wool into strands on loom. CU her face. CU her hands at work tying the short wool pieces to vertical strands; she slows down to show viewers what she is doing. MCU carpet pattern mounted on loom, woman's hand points at squares to count them. MS woman (different one) working hand loom. CU tool on seat; she picks it up and uses it to push down wool to make carpet tighter. CUs MSs woman working. she puts hand shuttle through strings. CU rows of spools mounted on a rack all with red thread; pan rt. to show all the strands going into a machine loom weaving a carpet. Var. MSs CUs of this machine loom weaving, operated by male worker. GV Axminster "where ancient pioneer of the carpet industry, Thomas Whitty, started weaving 200 years ago" GV Looking down steep street showing children walking up road past houses . MS Showing village street with bus coming towards camera. MS Showing factory at Axminster. MS House. MS Congregational church at Axminster. LS Parish church. SV Church. GV Field showing lorry loading. GV Countryside. | |
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