Carousel Designs Blog

My name is Jonathan Hartley and back in 1988 my parents Mike and Balva Hartley founded Carousel Designs. Our manufacturing plant in Douglasville, Georgia has been here since the 70’s and prior to Carousel Designs had been owned by a different company which made items such as rubber baby pants and women’s clothing.

In 1988, Carousel Designs launched and concentrated solely on manufacturing crib bedding and nursery décor. We designed, manufactured, and distributed our products for the better baby specialty stores throughout the United States.

The bedding collections we’ve manufactured over the years matched the trends popular at the time, but looking back on those older collections can be quite entertaining.

Here’s one of the originals circa 1989 named “Bashful Bunny”…

Twenty years later we’re still making baby bedding, and the designs have changed quite a bit! (See our newest arrivals)

Allan Sicat (our President), Jason Warren, and I acquired the business over a year ago. Mike and Balva still are involved somewhat, but are enjoying retirement somewhere in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

We’ve got a lot of exciting things brewing and stay tuned for some of our future product offerings and website enhancements.

We’ve also recently opened up our latest consumer-facing website which features the tremendous inventory of fabrics we have here at our 20,000 square foot facility. The website is Carousel Fabrics and we offer all of our fabrics in stock at some very competitive prices.

Jonathan

Tags: Carousel Designs, history of carousel designs

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