We are very lucky to have been asked to house a very special King Charles rug in our warehouse, You will find him keeping a watchful eye over the cutting tables in our Worcester DC.

One of our customers, Victoria Carpets created a 5m x 4m mosaic of Charles III using thousands of pieces of carpet to mark his forthcoming coronation. The Royal Warrant holder’s marketing team took inspiration from a portrait released for his 60th birthday and set about recreating the image using 3,095 3cm x 3cm pieces of Victoria’s carpets. This includes the carpet used for the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 2011, which earned it its Royal Warrant. This was used to create the red of the King’s ceremonial uniform of the Welsh Guards in their portrait.

The mosaic is the brainchild of the Victoria Carpets’ marketing team, comprising head of marketing Debbie Turvey, digital communications assistant Rebecca Cash, and marketing executive Frances Brewer.  Debbie took inspiration from a piece by Turkish artist Deniz Sagdic she had seen on Instagram, and asked her team if they thought it would be possible to achieve a similar effect using squares of carpet. Rebecca and Frances worked out that by pixelating an image of King Charles III, they could convert the pixels to carpet colours, and then match them to actual carpet squares.