Dining Room Linoleum Floor

[Nick Lavenice]

Hi everyone,
after looking at an artifact of one of the linoleum floor tiles in the Dining room I tried to reconstruct a portion of the floor. After I was finished drawing the outline of it I was having trouble with the colors. My question is, are the colors in the picture below about right, or should certain colors be darker/lighter then others? I know this might be impossible to know but I was just wondering if anyone knew. (sorry if the picture looks to small I'll try to play around with it)

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Reconstructed Dining Room Floor
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[Kyrila Scully]

The tile I have seen was white with a brick red color on the pattern. It was a leftover tile from the manufacturers for Harland and Wolff.

Kyrila

 

[Nick Lavenice]

Thanks Kyrila! where did you see the tile?

 

[Kyrila Scully]

At the Orlando exhibit. www.titanictheexhibit.com
This link may also still work under the exhibit's old name: www.titanicshipofdreams.com

Kyrila

 

[James Sapphire]

Just a month ago I had been to that exhibition. I managed to snap a picture of the tile.

Note: This picture is of a Linoleum tile of the Titanic Orlando "Ship of Dreams" Exhibition.

 

[David F. Smith]

I Thought the Titanics dining room had carpet unlike the Olympics Tiles?

 

[Clifton Johnson]

A common misconception. It was up until recently that we had found out about the Dining Saloon having tiles rather than carpet.The James Cameron movie and A Night to Remember were both wrong with their versions of the Dining Saloon.

 

[Johan Jonsson]

When and how did they make that discovery? I mean, there were patterns of the original carpet used in the Titanic's dining saloon, at the original carpetmakers office. Right?

 

[James Sapphire]

The Linoleum tile I provided in my picture is from the Olympic. And I like to think the Titanic's Dining Saloon did contain carpet. Especially providing the quote from "A Night to Remember from a man claiming "on Titanic you sank up to your ankles in it [carpet]". However, if you can provide evidence that this indeed is incorrect then I suppose you make your point. However, I am aware Cameron did make a few trips to Titanic to begin with. Besides, Cameron had the same company manufacture the carpet for his movie that did it for the real Titanic as well.

 

[Clifton Johnson]

James you may want to see this thread

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/5919/5004.html?979890403

 

[Clifton Johnson]

Johan,
I believe that the discovery was made when RMS Titanic Inc recovered the tiles. Plus many historians (like Parks) have been curious about the floor as well. And the company that made Cameron's Titanic dining saloon floor was Stoddards and you can find the link on here somewhere. Like I said though. The Dining Saloon did not have carpet but tile. Stoddards just happened to have on hand what they had put into staterooms and other places.

 

[James Sapphire]

However, the Smoking Room was believed to have been tiled and then covered with carpet. So is it not a possibility that the carpet dissolved and left behind the tile? It could go either way in my opinion.

 

[Michael H. Standart]

>>However, if you can provide evidence that this indeed is incorrect then I suppose you make your point<<

James, the evidence lies within the wreck itself. Tile, not carpet was found.

>>And I like to think the Titanic's Dining Saloon did contain carpet. Especially providing the quote from "A Night to Remember from a man claiming "on Titanic you sank up to your ankles in it [carpet]". <<

Unfortunately, that remark was made almost 40 years after the fact. Human memory is not infallible and the evidence of the wreck itself refutes the claim once and for all. Beware arguements from authority.

Shipping lines rarely used carpet in dining facilities and for some very practical reasons. Even on the most stable ships, seasickness was always a problem, and it's not a lot of fun to clean up the results of mal de mar even from a hardwood or tile deck, but at least that doesn't tend to stain permanently. Even if it did, replacing small sections of tile is a lot cheaper then having to replace the rug!

 

[Kyrila Scully]

You should also know that the term "carpet" was used for any kind of a rug, not just the wall to wall kind. So if someone who had sailed on Titanic made reference to "carpeting so thick you sank in it up to your ankles," it may simply have been a reference to a bedside area rug.

Kyrila

 

[Clifton Johnson]

Now there may have been a carpet runner down the aisles but I still think that the Dining Saloon had tile. James, where did you find that they had used carpet over the tile in the Smoking Room. To my knowledge they only used tile in there as well.