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Big News in TEXTILES: Obama’s Oval Office Redo


The new wheat, cream and blue oval-shaped rug made and donated by the Scott Group, an American carpet manufacturer headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan is made of    25 percent recycled wool.  The rug has the Presidential seal in the center and historical quotes of meaning to President Obama around the border. The five historical quotes for the rug are:

"The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself"                                        Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Towards Justice"      Martin Luther King Jr.

"Government of the People, By the People, For the People"                      Abraham Lincoln

"No Problem of Human Destiny is Beyond Human Beings"                        John F. Kennedy

"The Welfare of Each of Us is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us"

                                                                                                               Theodore Roosevelt

The couches in the Oval Office were custom-made in New York. The fabric, a light brown cotton with red, white and blue threads running through it, was woven in Pennsylvania. The two mahogany armchairs in front of the fireplace, previously used by President George W. Bush, were reupholstered with a caramel-colored leather. The President's brown leather desk chair was produced in New York.