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Rug or RUG may refer to: Rug, or carpet, a textile floor covering; Rug, slang for a toupée; Ghent University (Rijksunversiteit Gent, or RUG) Really Useful Group, or RUG, a company set up by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Rugby railway station, National Rail code RUG; University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), or RUG
Egyptian carpet made between 1468-1496 CE. An Arabian carpet (Arabic: سجاد, Sijjad) is an oriental carpet made in the Arab world using traditional Arab carpet-making techniques.
It takes the wool from approximately five sheep to make one shyrdak rug. There is a considerable variation in the softness, durability, and amount of wool that local sheep produce. [ 6 ] The autumn shearing provides the best wool because the sheep have been fed all spring and summer with nutritious fresh mountain vegetables.
Uşak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak Carpets (Turkish: Uşak Halısı) are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of Uşak, Turkey – one of the larger towns in Western Anatolia, which was a major center of rug production from the early days of the Ottoman Empire, into the early 20th ...
The implied author is a concept of literary criticism developed in the 20th century. Distinct from the author and the narrator, the term refers to the "authorial character" that a reader infers from a text based on the way a literary work is written. In other words, the implied author is a construct, the image of the writer produced by a reader ...
Bed rug from 1809 in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many of the surviving bed rugs have been found in the Connecticut River Valley, but others were produced elsewhere in New England, including Vermont, New Hampshire, and beyond. [10]: 36 The reason that bed rugs were meant as the top layer of bedding was due to their weight ...
It is a literary element. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. The setting can be referred to as story world [1] or milieu to include a context (especially society) beyond the immediate surroundings of the story. Elements of setting may include culture, historical period, geography, and hour.
In literature and other artistic media, a mode is an unspecific critical term usually designating a broad but identifiable kind of literary method, mood, or manner that is not tied exclusively to a particular form or genre. Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [1]