Carpets and Rugs: What’s the Difference?
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Your home deserves to be
every bit enchanting that you dream it can be. Though how to make a house into
a dream home is different for everyone, the most logical question to ask is why
not start from the ground up? That’s right, start with the floors. But before jumping feet-first into any
flooring endeavor, make sure you know just what floor you’re looking for – some
flooring choices and terms can easily get mixed up.
Probably not used as
interchangeably as ‘Kleenex’ is used
for ‘tissues,’ there is still some
confusion about how rugs and carpet differ. (No need to check the calendar;
this isn’t an early April Fools’ Day joke.) Yes, both are made of natural or
synthetic fibers, cushion feet, work to insulate rooms, and are chosen for
their aesthetics and wear-ability, however, in this instance of flooring
choices, size is what matters.
The main, overall, and
possibly only difference between rugs
and carpeting is the size of the two. Just take a look around your own home and
the floors you chose. If you’re walking on a soft, durable surface (the opposite
of solid wood floors), then the choices have been narrowed down to rug or carpeting.
If that material covers the entirety of the floor from wall-to-wall, it’s
carpet. If the flooring material has been draped or placed over another floor
type, then it’s a rug. Specifically, after some Internet-digging, several reputable
flooring experts list a rug as a textile that usually doesn’t exceed
6.5 feet (2 meters). Carpet floors are ones that are typically larger
than 6.5 feet (2 meters).
It’s tough to say which
flooring came first, and how each name was designated. However, dating back to
the 1600s, having a floor that wasn’t stone, beaten earth, or even simply dirt
in a home was considered a luxury. Before it reached lower classes that a floor
that could be both equally comfortable and hard-wearing, upper classes often
chose rugs for decorations. Because of different designs, patterns, motifs,
geometrical designs, colors, knots, and weaves used varied from culture to
culture and place to place, the possibilities of decorative rugs were endless. In
fact, in wealthy homes in Europe and Asia, families would put multiple rugs on
display.
Though the modern-day
definition of rugs were the textiles used as decorations before they were used
as floor coverings, Encyclopædia Britannica states that ‘carpet’ was used to describe any covering – not just floor
coverings – until the 19th century. So, a carpet wasn’t just used as a floor
covering; it was used to describe table coverings and tablecloths, tapestries, and the like, all of which now have separate, discrete words.
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