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===Carpets=== Each Wetherspoons pub has one or more unique carpets, inspired by the pub's name, location and building. They are made by [[Axminster Carpets]] and, sometimes having more than the usual six colours, have to be partially handmade on old fashioned looms, costing up to Β£30,000 β twice as much as stock designs.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Haynes |first=Gavin |date=2016-01-10 |title=The secret life of Wetherspoon's freaky carpets |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2016/jan/10/wetherspoons-carpet-tumblr-blog |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230516054922/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2016/jan/10/wetherspoons-carpet-tumblr-blog |archive-date= May 16, 2023 }}</ref> These have been the subject of a book, ''Spoons Carpets'', by Kit Caliss<ref name="sanderson">{{cite news |last1=Sanderson |first1=Caroline |title=Kit Caless: 'If I'd pitched the book from scratch, I'd have been laughed out of every publisher's office' |work= The Bookseller |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/profile/kit-caless-if-i-d-have-pitched-book-scratch-i-d-have-been-laughed-out-every-publisher-s |date=29 September 2016 | access-date=11 April 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411132550/https://www.thebookseller.com/profile/kit-caless-if-i-d-have-pitched-book-scratch-i-d-have-been-laughed-out-every-publisher-s |archive-date= 11 April 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Caless |first1=Kit |title=Spoon's carpets. An appreciation. |date=2016 |publisher=Square Peg |location=London |isbn=9781910931493}}</ref> and a colouring book, ''Colour Your Own Spoons Carpet''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hancock |first1=Louie |title=Colour Your Own Spoons Carpet: bumper uk edition. |date=2020 |publisher=Independent Publishing Network |location=[S.l.] |isbn=978-1838537524}}</ref> {{Gallery |JDW Raymond Mays Carpet 2.jpg | Raymond Mays, Bourne | alt1 = Racing car wheels in several red, yellow black and grey | Moon & Spoon 20180307 151334 (49773407067).jpg | Moon and Spoon, Slough | alt2 = | Talk of the Town, Paignton 20181204 103540 (49773051216).jpg | Talk of the Town, Paignton | alt3 = | The Green Ginger 20181204 144339 (49772604293).jpg | The Green Ginger, Torquay | alt4 = | The Imperial Hotel, Exeter 20181203 144924 (49772985781).jpg | The Imperial Hotel, Exeter | alt5 = | The Isaac Merritt 20181204 100410 (49773365357).jpg | The Isaac Merritt, Paignton | alt6 = | The Panniers, Barnstaple 20181207 122610 (49775628798).jpg | The Panniers, Barnstaple | alt7 = | The Picture Playhouse, Bexhill (Dining2).jpg | The Picture Playhouse, Bexhill | alt8 = | The Water Gate, Barnstaple 20181207 105454 (49773763247).jpg | The Water Gate, Barnstaple | alt9 = | Wetherspoon carpet- Cambridge's The Regal.jpg | The Regal, Cambridge | alt10 = Pieces of 35 mm film, with sprocket holes and frames, some with spools at either end, and abstract shapes | Wetherspoon carpet- Elephant and Castle.jpg | Rockingham Arms, Elephant and Castle<!-- this carpet may no longer be there --> | alt11 = | Wetherspoon carpet- Windsor.jpg | The King and Castle, Windsor | alt12 = | Wetherspoon's carpets- Midsummer Boulevard.jpg | Wetherspoons, Milton Keynes <!-- yes, Weatherspoons is the name of the pub --> | alt13 = | Wetherspoon's carpets- Moon Under Water, Milton Keynes.jpg | Moon Under Water, Milton Keynes | alt14 = }}
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