Our latest ‘Carpets of Caring ®’ philanthropic partnership is with the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization Made: In America (www.madeinamerica-usa.org) and Baltimore-area university architecture and design students. They collaborated to transform Maryland’s esteemed Carroll Mansion, a gem of Federalist architecture that belonged to the last-surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. … Read More
Good News for Designers! Langhorne Lowers Minimum Custom Order
Big News for Small Orders: Langhorne Carpet Company Lowers Minimums for Custom Goods. Designers can now customize carpets from 15 feet. Excellent news for interior designers seeking out the perfect custom stair runner, hallway carpet, small rug or one-of- a-kind border: After 80-some years in business, Langhorne Carpet is offering … Read More
Shadow Flower Blooms at our Bucks County Mill
Here in the Northeastern United States, flowers—first daffodils, tulips and crocuses, soon lilacs and irises—are popping up in gardens, pots and parks this time of year. It’s cherry blossom season, too. Blossoms have also popped up at Langhorne Carpets. Just in time for spring’s apex, the Bucks County heritage carpet … Read More
Alexander Stadler and Langhorne’s Collaborative Carpet
Spring has sprung at Langhorne Carpet Company, and the vibrant colors of a new release by author, illustrator, artist, shop owner and designer Alexander Stadler have gone “on loom.” The debut carpet is a brilliant marriage of heritages for Langhorne, a historic Bucks County Wilton Jacquard mill established in 1930, … Read More
Langhorne Carpet Historic Reproduction for Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church Remembered
On the 200th anniversary of its founding, Philadelphia’s Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church and the United States Postal Service unveiled the Richard Allen Forever Stamp, memorializing the church’s eminent and heroic founder and bishop, activist and civic leader. The Black Heritage stamp’s unveiling ceremony took place in early … Read More
Bill Cunningham Shares Langhorne’s Love for Leopard
Langhorne Carpet Company, a heritage Jacquard Wilton mill established in 1930 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has something in common with legendary New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. Both love leopard, and other cat-like, spots. For a recent Sunday Styles feature, Cunningham aimed his camera’s lens at New Yorkers in … Read More
Langhorne Carpet Featured in Interior Designer Nate Berkus’s New York City Apartment
Dressing Room – Saxony Carpet Woven by Langhorne When Nate Berkus, host of the Nate Berkus Show on Oprah Winfrey’s own channel, and frequent guest on her show, decided to makeover the spacious dressing quarters in the Greenwich Village apartment he shares with Jeremiah Brent, Mr. Berkus insisted on a … Read More
The Campaign for Wool Completes Wool Week 2015 in China and Japan
The Campaign for Wool was launched in 2010, and is a multi-national, cross-industry coalition working together to raise the profile of wool as the natural sustainable fiber for fashion and interiors. The Campaign recently completed a successful Wool Week 2015 in China and Japan. Focusing on the Campaign’s belief to … Read More
Langhorne Carpet Proudly “Greets” Pope Francis Upon His Historic Arrival In Philadelphia
Custom Cardinal Red-Gothic Gold Custom Carpet Welcomes The Pope (Pope Francis, greeted by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput and dignitaries, stepped off his American Airlines flight from New York City and onto the specially designed, woven wool Langhorne carpet at PHL September 26th) Suburban Philadelphia’s Langhorne Carpet Company, established in 1930, … Read More
Langhorne Carpet Company Weaves Rugs to be Used During Papal Visit
Philadelphia, PA (September 10, 2015) – The Archdiocese of Philadelphia and World Meeting of Families – Philadelphia 2015 today announced that Langhorne Carpet Company is weaving and will donate three custom carpets to be used during the visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia on September 26 and 27. Under its … Read More