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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.
- cushion/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="972421521f0fb31f96b1db3457a408e4" target="_blank" >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.
- strip/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="5bcc35c0365bf3056ff6d9a8e8c822b0" target="_blank" >carpet strip: Also see base-shoe-molding/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="5bcc35c0365bf3056ff6d9a8e8c822b0" target="_blank" >base shoe.
- tile/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="80c51c239e9caa05fc16a1c4826dcd27" target="_blank" >carpet tile: A flooring-tile/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="619d80b89459fd53e07fddaeb994b892" target="_blank" >flooring tile made of carpeting material.
- bedding/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="9e61d328a0d32a710f3a9d0d0f08520c" target="_blank" >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/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="7750a59c8e1a7a5c273172bec60a2617" target="_blank" >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.
- bonded-carpet/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="2e01c04909577a41614c8303aa03a2bb" target="_blank" >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.
- density/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="b8e3ddff2ddf10d414d81b4419db4e08" target="_blank" >pile density: The weight of pile yarn per unit volume of carpet, stated in ounces per cubic yard.
- scotch-carpet/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="129953d8c66b11969ad1c187d39f1956" target="_blank" >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 house/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="4d8d702b37a7ba2341c578ad4aae854c" target="_blank" >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/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="1dec7e36cb6ee895bbc4145c8b4317d7" target="_blank" >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/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="ce2adef1c143eb9d9fec27d577efd157" target="_blank" >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 oil/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="ab4969dc6a53b3ac14b7d575267e0938" target="_blank" >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/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="3d7752256725269281797424f2a5d756" target="_blank" >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.
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