One of our London West End customers asked us to assist in the supply of carpets to decorate a large pop up tent in Mayfair that will be Covid compliant in the run up to the easing of lockdown on 12th April 2021.
Forward planning was essential requiring a clear plan and choice of carpets in colour and size. A very brief working window was allowed for a rapid install working around other contractors. Quality of fixing demanded a high level of security to ensure public safety and liability.
The Honourable East India Company's (HEIC) principal warehouse in the City of London was the Cutler Street complex, constructed in the late 18th century just outside the walls of the medieval city.
In my time at the PLA (from 1948 onwards) the customs seals were made, as I remember it, of metal thin enough to be malleable, shaped roughly like the figure 8 except in the middle.
Hand-knotted Carpets are no longer made in the British Isles, the last in England being the Royal Wilton Carpet Company, closed 1960, and Donegal Carpets Ltd Killybegs Co.Donegal Eire which closed in 1987.
