Carpet Machine

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While the introduction of new machinery to textile factories in the 1970s resulted in workforce reductions across the state, the carpet industry of north Georgia weathered such changes, producing around 80 percent of the world's carpets in the twenty-first century.

Courtesy of Carpet and Rug Institute

Carpet Machine

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