tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328932316923497433.post1091608584086705622..comments2009-12-16T09:03:09.721-05:00The Carpet And Rug Institutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315675524294336775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2328932316923497433.post-72344870161381100702009-12-16T08:11:46.468-05:002009-12-16T08:11:46.468-05:00James, I feel like you may have slighted our early TTMA a bit in this short history, and their essential influence in maintaining this industry when the U.S. government cut off cotton at the advent of WWII, which stopped it cold.<br /><br />Tufting at the time was primarily chenille, but the industry was in an important transition period to what was to become broadloom tufting. <br /><br />These men and women banded together to form TTMA and lobby Washington to release the cotton the fledgling industry needed to survive, and wound up not only with that, but government contracts to produce war materials. <br /><br />Tufting in NW Georgia persevered because of their efforts.<br /><br />Just thought more credit was due here.Paul Shoffner, Jr.noreply@blogger.com