Tapestry velvet carpets and rugs ranked third as to quantity and second as to value of output in 1914, and showed pronounced in creases in both respects as compared with the 1909 figures. The production in the later year was 13,227,819 square yards, valued at $12,867, 635, representing increases of 24.1 per cent in quantity and 42.5 per cent in value as compared with 1909.
Wilton carpets and rugs which ranked fifth in respect to quantity and third in respect to value in 1914, also showed pronounced gains, the output in that year amounting to 5,616,263 square yards, valued at $11,929,605, and repre senting increases of 5.1 per cent in quantity and 17.9 per cent in value over the correspond ing figures for 1909.
The remaining products of the industry— consisting of body Brussels carpets and rugs, ingrain carpets and rugs, Smyrna rugs, Colonial or rag rugs, wool and paper-fibre rugs, other wool rugs, and other products — were valued at $15,899,605 in 1914. The production of body Brussels, ingrains and Smyrna rugs showed pronounced declines in 1914 as compared with 1909.
The chief constituent material of the carpet and rug industry is wool, either in raw or in partially prepared form. The raw wool used
in 1914 amounted to 52,552,449 pounds and cost $10,493,743. Woolen and worsted yarns also constituted important materials. Of woolen yarn, 21,626,360 pounds, costing $5,821,848, was used; of worsted yarn 9,267,278 pounds, costing $4,592,906 • of materials other than wool, yarn made of jute, ramie and other vegetable fibre is of greatest importance, the amount consumed being 59,148,266 pounds, costing $6,040,186; cotton yarn to the amount of 24,619,137 pounds, costing $4,637,673; and linen yarn amounting to 7,602,200 pounds, costing $1,414,824.
More than three-fourths of the mills pur chased the yarn which they used in weaving carpets, there being only 22 establishments which bought the wool, hair or cotton, and themselves spun the yarn they consumed. These establishments produced, for their own con sumption, 35,615,821 pounds of woolen, 10,253, 791 pounds of worsted and 2,068,435 pounds of cotton yarn. Thus the total amount of woolen yarn used in the manufacture of carpets and rugs was 57,242,181 pounds; of worsted yarn, 19,521,069 pounds; and of cotton yarn, 26,687, 572 pounds.