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The brackets are installed on either side the carpet runner directly on the wood of the step. The brackets hold the bar that lies across the carpet runner firmly in place. A decorative finial end is commonly attached or integrated into the ends of the bar or attached to the outside of the brackets to give a more decorative and less industrial look.
A traditional stair carpet was characterized by not covering the full width of the stair but leaving the underlying wood−stone−tile of the tread and risers open to view on the sides. This was sometimes simply to save on carpet and sometimes to expose features while preventing wear to the underlying surface.
Woven rugs include both flat rugs (for example kilims) and pile rugs. [2] The more tightly a rug is woven or knotted, the more detailed a design can be. "It is generally believed that the density of knots, the age, the material, and the rarity of the design or knots determines the value of a carpet. ..." [This quote needs a citation]
Fitted carpet, also wall-to-wall carpet, is a carpet intended to cover a floor entirely. Carpet over 4 meters in length is usually installed with the use of a power-stretcher (tubed or tubeless). Fitted carpets were originally woven to the dimensions of the specific area they were covering.
The terms carpet and rug are often used interchangeably. A carpet is sometimes defined as stretching from wall to wall. [6] Another definition treats rugs as of lower quality or of smaller size, with carpets quite often having finished ends. A third common definition is that a carpet is permanently fixed in place while a rug is simply laid out ...
"Runners", members of the Beguny subset of the Russian Bezpopovtsy religious movement; Runner (casting), a channel in the gating system of a casting die; Runner rug, a long, narrow rectangular carpet; Running gag, a literary device in the form of a repeated joke or reference; The rotating driven element of a water turbine (hydroelectric) generator
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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