About Capel rugs

Ninety years ago in Troy, North Carolina, A. Leon Capel ventured into a business that would become America's oldest and largest importer and manufacturer of area rugs. In 1917, after Henry Ford invented the tractor, he fashioned the raw material from his Gee-Haw Plowline company into braids and sewed them into spirals to make reversible braided rugs. Mules and the plowlines that used to steer them were obsolete, but as sales grew, Leon soon found out that nearly every family could use a good braided rug.

In 90 years, this family-owned company has changed with time, but the desire to provide quality area rugs has remained at the heart of the Capel tradition.

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