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▪ I. Wilton1|ˈwɪltən|
Name of a town in the south of Wiltshire, noted since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I for the manufacture of carpets: applied to † (a) a kind of cloth, (b) a carpet of which the manufacture resembles that of Brussels carpet but differing in having the rib cut so as to produce a velvet pile.
1773Pennsylv. Gaz. 21 Apr. 1/1 Fine broadcloths, cassimers, saggathies, and Wiltons. 1774Ibid. 10 Aug. Suppl. 2/2 Wilton and Scotch carpets. 1776Pennsylv. Even. Post 21 May 256/2 A brick coloured Wilton coattee. 1889Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxiii, As soft and velvety as a Wilton carpet. 1904Bradbury Carpet Manuf. i. 43 The difference in shade was greatest in Wilton and Velvet pile structures. Ibid. iv. 127 The wire used for Wilton is usually deeper and therefore produces a loftier pile than Brussels.
▪ II. Wilton2|ˈwɪltən|
The name of a farm near Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa; used attrib. to denote a later Stone Age culture of southern Africa.
1928A. J. H. Goodwin in Ann. S. Afr. Mus. (1929) XXVII. x. 251 Our first knowledge of the Wilton Industry comes from the Cape Peninsula, various crescents, thumbnail scrapers, and the like appearing from a number of kitchen middens and sand-dune sites in this district. 1936L. S. B. Leakey Stone Age Afr. v. 96 In the Wilton culture the most typical tools are,..crescents and other small geometric microliths, together with small double-end and thumb-nail scrapers. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. ii. 41 The Wilton [culture] is named from the rock-shelter on the farm of that name west of Grahamstown. Its distribution is very wide. 1980Cambr. Encycl Archaeol. 174/1 The microlithic industries (known as Wilton in eastern and southern Africa) of the early to mid-Holocene. |