In 1969, when I was 18, I worked as an Assistant to the designer at the Victoria Carpet Company in Dandenong. I mixed paint that matched wool colors and painted carpet designs by the Designer onto graph paper. Each square represented one wool tuft. A few years back I did this acrylic paint on 30 x 30.5mm stretched canvas based on a1960s Axminster carpet design. I may have discarded this as I occasionally cull artworks. I reflect on my confidence, as I recall walking into the factory with my limited folio of works, declaring that I could do the job advertised on a billboard on the factory gate. After passing a color blindness test I was offered the position. Only 1% of people were unemployed that year. Certainly different times.
