Stories
- Article
Beyond a green carpet
Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.
- Article
The empty bungalow
Grandma’s unsteady piles of stuff have been dismantled and dispersed. From an empty bungalow, Georgie Evans makes a plea for hoarding behaviour to be better understood.
- Photo story
The last glass-eye maker in Britain
Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.
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The sickness in the wellness industry
In recovery from anorexia, Gwen Smith began to realise how the wellness industry needs its followers to feel bad about themselves in order to make money out them.
![Textiles: a loom for [stair?] carpet weaving, elevations (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0024150EL/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
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A young woman posing naked against a background of carpets.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 538780iPart of: Photographs of Tunisian women.
- Ephemera
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Fully furnished family house, fitted carpets, central heating, suit animal lover... / Bayer plc.
Bayer (Firm)Date: [1994?]- Ephemera
Chivers' carpet soap : "it's effect is magical" : cleans, purifies & restores carpets like new : over 50 years success : prized in royal households.
Date: [1900?]- Books
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An account of the new manufactory of tapestry, after the Manner of that at the Gobelins; and of carpets, after the Manner of that at Chaillot, &c. Now undertaken at Fulham, By Mr. Peter Parisot.
Parisot, Pierre-Curel, 1679-1769.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]
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The handy book of the household : containing useful information about beds, bleaching, boxes, boots, carpets, curtains, disinfectants, dyes, domestic matters, fabrics, filters, firewood, furniture, glass, gloves, kitchen ware, lamps, mats, etc.
Date: [1892?]