Rug and carpet stores

A few stores do a large enough volume of business so that manufacturers make special weaves, colors and patterns ex­clusively for them. No other store in their immediate area will have these particular items.

Other large, and most medium-sized establishments may have few if any unusual pieces in stock, but they have access to whole­salers and importers of all types and can always get a selection of rugs or imported carpet samples from which you can make your choice.

Most of them do—and all of them should—carry a wide variety of machine-made samples from which orders are easily placed. Any manufacturer, unless he is temporarily out of stock, can deliver special orders in a very short time.