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MW+D Receives World Wide Licensing Agreement from Roycroft Shops Inc.

On March 1st, 2001, Maine Wool + Design Corp. announced a world wide licensing agreement with Roycroft Shops Inc. MW+D will be producing a rug collection for Roycroft based on William Morris and Frank Lloyd Wright designs.

Roycroft is a handicraft community founded in 1895 and located in East Aurora, NY. In 1895 Elbert Hubbard, a renowned writer, started the Roycroft Press to publish his biographical works called, "Little Journeys." A few years later an inn was built to accommodate the vast number of visitors that visited Elbert Hubbard on a yearly basis. Needing to furnish the inn, Elbert Hubbard had local craftsmen make simple straight lined style furniture. The visitors loved the furniture so much that they asked to buy it and thus the furniture manufacturing company was born.

The furniture line that is now cherished and sought after around the country has licensed MW+D's skilled artisans and craftsmen to manufacture these rugs in Lewiston, Maine, with the care and quality that Roycrofter's have come to expect over the years.

For more information about Roycroft you can visit their home page at www.roycroftshops.com.