Axminster Carpets, the historic British manufacturer rescued by a group of local businessmen, can trace its history back 250 years. Here is a brief history of the company.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: The market town of Axminster, on the River Axe in Devon, is synonymous with the manufacture of luxuriously woven carpets.

Axminster Carpets, which was founded in 1755, became part of this elite group by the producing plush, colourful carpets that are in Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and other royalty-owned addresses.

Among them are the Axminster looms that from 1928 until 2019 made Karastan’s most famous creation: ... as well as Karastan’s broadloom carpet and wool rugs. Until 2019, ...

Axminster Carpets were tasked with recreating the original 1822 carpet at The Royal Pavilion in Brighton. Axminster Carpets has collapsed into administration after weeks of trying to secure a ...

Axminster Carpets was previously rescued in 2013. It had gone into administration, also overseen by Duff & Phelps, but was bought out by a consortium led by private investor Stephen Boyd. The firm ...

The axe is about to fall on Axminster. After 258 years, the future of the carpet maker, whose name is synonymous with grand, large-scale woven floor coverings, is looking distinctly threadbare.

Historic carpet maker Axminster is to go into administration in a move putting 400 jobs at risk. The Devon-based company, which dates back 250 years, said the decision will provide the company and ...

Axminster Carpets has been owned since 2016 by H Dawson Wool, a Bradford-based supplier to the wool carpet manufacturing sector. The company has been run by managing director Jonathan Young for ...

SOMETIME AROUND the end of the last century, our attitude toward wall-to-wall carpet grew jaundiced. The culprit: inexpensive nylon broadloom that had given rise to tacky bicolor shags and ...

Axminster Carpets were tasked with recreating the original 1822 carpet at The Royal Pavilion in Brighton. Axminster Carpets has collapsed into administration after weeks of trying to secure a ...