To avoid the potential stress and damage that might result from installing the remaining portions of the original wool carpet, a reproduction floor covering was created in collaboration with the Langhorne Carpet Company. Referencing a fragment of the original carpet, artists recreated Joseph Urban’s design pattern and custom-matched yarns to replicate the carpet’s original colors. Once the design and colors were finalized, weavers used large, industrial looms, like those used when the original carpet was made, to create the new carpet.
WATCH: Langhorne Carpet Company producing the reproduction carpet.