"First class" dining room carpet from the liner, Queen Mary
Before the First World War a Scottish company made the carpets for the ill-fated Titanic before it set sail on its first and last voyage across the Atlantic. From 1918 until the 1960s, when planes replaced ships for long distance passenger travel, Scottish factories produced carpets for ocean liners such as the Queen Mary and the 'Coronation Gold' carpet, which was laid along the aisle in Westminster Abbey for Queen Elizabeth's Coronation in 1953.
Weaving the Coronation carpet on a 33 feet wide loom 1953
The "first class" lounge on the liner Arcadia 1956
