pile floor covering
1floor covering — Finish material on floors, including wood strips, parquet, linoleum, vinyl, asphalt tile, rubber, cork, epoxy resins, ceramic tile, and carpeting. Wood strip flooring, attached to a subfloor of plywood, is most popular, especially for residences …
2Sprung floor — A sprung floor is a floor that absorbs shocks giving it a softer feel. Such floors are considered the best available for dance and indoor sports and physical education.They enhance performance and greatly reduce injuries. Modern sprung floors are …
3Lotto carpet — pile floor covering handwoven in Turkey, so called because carpets of this design appear in several of the works of the 16th century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto (Lotto, Lorenzo). They are characterized by a lacy arabesque repeated field… …
4Savonnerie carpet — French pile floor covering, usually large, whether made at the Savonnerie workshop or made in that manner and style. The Savonnerie factory (on the site of a former soap factory, hence the name) was established in Paris in 1627 at the Hospice de …
5Bakhtiari rug — also spelled Bakhtyārī handwoven pile floor covering made under Bakhtyārī patronage in certain villages southwest of Eṣfahān in central Iran. Bakhtiari rugs are symmetrically knotted on a foundation of cotton. The colouring and patterns …
6Aubusson carpet — Floor covering produced at the village of Aubusson in central France. A centre for the production of tapestries and furniture coverings since the 16th century, Aubusson was granted the title of Royal Manufactory in 1665. In 1743 workshops were… …
7Kāshān carpet — floor covering of wool or silk handwoven in or near the Iranian city of Kāshān, long known for its excellent textiles. Three classes of all silk carpets of the Ṣafavid period (16th century) are credited to Kāshān. The first includes three… …
8Ghiordes carpet — floor covering handwoven in the town of Ghiordes (Gördes), northeast of İzmir in western Anatolia (now in Turkey). The prayer rugs (prayer rug) of Ghiordes, together with those of Kula and Ladik, have long been especially prized in the Middle… …
9Hereke carpet — floor covering handwoven in imperial workshops founded late in the 19th century at Hereke, Turkey, about 40 miles (64 km) east of Istanbul. Large carpets and prayer rugs with pile of wool or silk were made there for palace use and for gifts… …
10Kazakh rug — floor covering woven by villagers living in western Azerbaijan and in a number of towns and villages in northern Armenia and the adjacent southern part of Georgia. The weavers are probably mostly Azerbaijanian Turks, although it is clear that… …
