Industrial revolution and carpets

"Chenille" carpet and "tapestry" carpet were both invented. In Scotland before the middle of the nineteenth century.

It remained for the American invention of power-driven looms to complete the industrial revolution in floorcoverings. The art of handmade carpets was dying out.

Though Witty's looms were moved from Axminster to Wilton in 1835, by far the largest output there was Brussels and Wilton carpet by the yard.
In the late nineteenth century, William Morris revived some interest in hand-knotted carpet.

His revolt from the incredible lengths to which late Victorian designers had gone led him back to the flat conventionalized motifs of simplified Oriental patterns. He set up carpet looms in several places and made some outstanding designs for the weavers.

The William Morris school of design was very important in America in the early 1900's.