Home Textiles Today - April 7, 2008

Despite the domino effect of the growing crop of markets around the country competing for vendor and retailer attention, many area rug suppliers say they have come to regard the biannual High Point Market as "important, "No.1" and a "big opportunity," to quote a few. "High Point is our No.

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