Rugs of today’s market

Deep pile fabrics chemically treated to produce carpet a silky sheen.

All these fabrics, though they are in solid colors, have a play of light and shade across the surface which makes them more interesting than plain carpet.

Most of them are fairly expensive, so simulated textures have been developed in cheaper qualities. In these, two or three closely related shades of one color are woven into the pile to imitate the effect of light on an irregular surface. Sometimes combinations are made of real and simulated texture.

The type of floorcovering design which has largely replaced the hooked patterns and to a certain extent plain carpet because of its practicability, is the damask type of pattern.

These flat unobtrusive designs are developed in several shades of one color, often with a simulated rough texture.

Made in various qualities to suit fat or lean pocketbooks, they led all other figured floor coverings in popularity before the war, and are still in great demand.