CAVALIER CARPETS

Cavalier Carpets are pleased to have achieved its growth whilst retaining its private ownership, which we believe allows for greater flexibility in our decision-making.

Cavalier Carpets primary aim over the years has been to provide customers with well-designed products of high quality and at the best value. Whilst we manufacture all types of product for all kinds of tastes including synthetics, we have nevertheless built our reputation on the wool based products that remain the first choice of the discerning British public.

And so we go from strength to strength. It’s a success story that is firmly based on massive investment in plant, machinery and the very latest in information technology. This is evidenced most recently in Cavalier Carpets move into the insurance market where we aim to provide excellent levels of service at good value to the benefit of both homeowner and insurance companies.

Such commitment to the future is why we believe it should prove a continuing success story.

Carpets have been produced in Britain since 1720, when a factory was established at Wilton in Wiltshire. The original carpets made at Wilton were a low loop pile construction known as ‘Brussels Weave’. A development on this was a cut pile version which was then named after the town of Wilton. This new ‘Wilton Weave’ was then copied by other factories in Kidderminster and the rest of the country.

Later in 1755, Thomas Whitty started a factory at Axminster in Devon, making hand knotted carpets. He later mechanised his production as the industrial revolution began to take hold and in doing so, established the name of Axminster as synonymous with quality woven carpet. Both types of weaving were then produced in factories around the country as the carpet industry began to expand to fulfil a growing demand for its products worldwide.