material / cloth/canvas / carpet
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material / cloth/canvas / carpet
- Axminster: A town in England which gave its name to a long-pile hand-tufted carpet.
- Brussels carpet: A flat-weave carpet with a looped, uncut pile.
- carpet: A heavy woven, knitted, needle-tufted, or felted fabric for covering a floor.
- carpet cushion: A pad of cellular rubber or felted animal hair, over which carpet is installed to increase resilience, improve durability, and reduce impact sound transmission.
- carpet pad: A pad of cellular rubber or felted animal hair, over which carpet is installed to increase resilience, improve durability, and reduce impact sound transmission. Also called carpet cushion.
- carpet strip: Also see base shoe.
- carpet tile: A flooring tile made of carpeting material.
- carpet-bedding: The 19th century version of a parterre de broderie in which the areas for planting were filled with low-growing colorful plants: the effect was often somewhat garish.
- crumb cloth: A cloth temporarily laid over a floor or carpet to catch spills and crumbs.
- cut pile: A carpet texture created by cutting each loop of pile yarn, producing a range of textures from informal shags to short, dense velvets.
- drugget: A sturdy fabric floor covering, used to protect boards or a better carpet from wear.
- flocked carpet: Carpet made by propelling short strands of pile fiber electrostatically against an adhesive-coated backing.
- fusion-bonded carpet: Carpet made by heat-fusing face yarns to a vinyl backing supported by other materials.
- ingrain carpet: An inexpensive pileless carpet. Also known as a Scotch or Kidderminster carpet.
- knitted carpet: Carpet made by looping the backing, stitching, and pile yarns with three sets of needles.
- loop pile: A carpet texture created by weaving, tufting, or knitting the pile yarn into loops.
- needlepunched carpet: Carpet made by punching carpet fibers back and forth through a woven polypropylene sheet with barbed needles to form a felted fiber mat.
- pile density: The weight of pile yarn per unit volume of carpet, stated in ounces per cubic yard.
- Scotch carpet: See ingrain carpet.
- tufted carpet: Carpet made by mechanically stitching pile yarn through a primary fabric backing and bonded with latex to a secondary backing.
- turkey carpet: An English-made carpet in the Turkish style, characterized by bold colors, especially red and blue, and geometrical patterns of stylized living forms such as flowers and fruits, often with a border.
- Wilton carpet: A carpet that has a looped pile cut to give it a soft finish.
- woven carpet: Carpet made by simultaneously interweaving the backing and pile yarns on a loom.
material / cloth/canvas / tapestry
- arras: A tapestry or other woven fabric used as a wall hanging.
- hallyngs: The hangings of the early English hall.
- hanging: Tapestry, paper, or other material for covering and decorating walls of a room.
- hangings: Curtains, draperies, tapestries, and the like.
- tapestry: A fabric, worked on a warp by hand, the designs employed usually being pictorial; used for wall hangings or the like.
material / cloth/canvas / type
- awning: A rooflike cover of canvas or other material extending in front of a doorway or window or over a deck to provide protection from the sun or rain.
- building paper: Any of various papers, felts, or similar sheet material used in construction to prevent the passage of air or moisture.
- chintz: A printed cotton with a glazed finish.
- curtain rods: A rod used for hanging a curtain from, occasionally incorporated into the decoration of a wall.
- floorcloth: Canvas sheathing painted to look like a more expensive floor covering, such as a carpet, parquet, or tile, and heavily varnished.
- linoleum: A resilient floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with heated linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to achieve the desired colors and patterns.
- marouflage: A technique for fastening canvas (or the like) to a wall by means of an adhesive.
- pelmet: The fabric or wooden covering above a window; also called a pelmet.
- quadro riportato: Painting on canvas, later transferred to a ceiling, etc. 2. Ceiling-painting without foreshortening illusionistic effects, designed as though it is to be seen at normal eye-level. It was a Neo-classical reaction against Baroque quadratura and trompe l’oeil work…
- shade: A fabric screen to obstruct the light passing through a window, usually hung from a spring-actuated roller. 2. The parts of a solid that receive no light because they are tangent to or turned away from a theoretical light source. 3. A relatively dark value of a color, produced by adding black to it.
- tarpaulin: A waterproofed canvas covering for use in protecting unfinished work or stored materials against weather.
- valance: The fabric or wooden covering above a window; also called a pelmet.
Also see Architecture index.