On The Carpet 1946

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Full title reads: "ON THE CARPET"

Wilton, Wiltshire.

Painting a carpet pattern. Dipping wool into dyeing vat. Women operating hand looms. Dyed wool being taken from vat. Carpet in first stages of being women. Woman tying tufts into loom. Beating tufts into loom. People being instructed...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45005
Sort Number:
46/010
Time in/Out:
01:07:46:00 / 01:09:19:00
Canister:
46/10
Film ID:
1374.06
Issue Date:
04/02/1946

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