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Cover The Floor With Rugs:
Selection and Laying oŁ Rugs and Carpets
In nearly all rooms of the house, with the possible exception of entrance halls and sunporches, it is preferable to cover the Floor with rugs, carpets, or other forms of covering. Floor coverings add warmth, dull the noise of footsteps, help silence any possible echo, and by their pattern, weave, or color, make an important contribution to the general scheme of decoration. Floor coverings should generally be considered as backgrounds for the furniture, and although patterned materials may be used, these should never be obtrusive. Strong color contrasts between pattern and field are psychologically uncomfortable to tread upon, and as a general rule plain-colored Floor coverings should be subdued in tone. The Floor covering, whether patterned or plain, should always have its color or colors repeated elsewhere in the room. A Floor covering that is in a colored pattern usually will not permit the use of other important colored patterns on the Wall or larger pieces of upholstered furniture. Plain Rugs and carpets have been woven only since about 1900 and they have consistently grown in popularity since that date. Texture mottling, pepper and salt effects made by twisting different colored threads in the pile, and patterns produced by contrasting pile heights have served to give them surface interest.Machine-made Rugs and Carpets Classification. By far the most popular types of Floor coverings used today are the commercial carpets that come within the classification known as Chenille, Wilton (Brussels and ingrain), Velvet (tapestry), Axminster (moquette), and Rugs of the luster type.
Rugs were also produced by knitting strands of rags into narrow strips and sewing the strips together. Crocheted Rugs were made of the same materials in circular or oval shapes. Other methods of making fancy Floor coverings were also used by the Colonial housewives; floral rosettes were made by superimposing small concentric circles of different colored cloths, each slightly smaller than the one below; these were sewed together on a foundation cloth. Sometimes the Rugs of this type were made in patterns that resembled overlapping laural leaves or elongated diamond shapes.
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