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    Carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper pile layer attached to a backing. Traditionally made from wool, synthetic fibers like nylon and polyester are now often used. Carpets can be produced through weaving, tufting, knotting, or other methods. They are used widely in homes and commercial spaces to provide insulation, decoration, and sound absorption. Carpets come in a huge range of prices and qualities.

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    Carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper pile layer attached to a backing. Traditionally made from wool, synthetic fibers like nylon and polyester are now often used. Carpets can be produced through weaving, tufting, knotting, or other methods. They are used widely in homes and commercial spaces to provide insulation, decoration, and sound absorption. Carpets come in a huge range of prices and qualities.

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    Carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper pile layer attached to a backing. Traditionally made from wool, synthetic fibers like nylon and polyester are now often used. Carpets can be produced through weaving, tufting, knotting, or other methods. They are used widely in homes and commercial spaces to provide insulation, decoration, and sound absorption. Carpets come in a huge range of prices and qualities.

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    A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The
    pile was traditionally made from wool, but, since the 20th century, synthetic fibers such as polypropylene,
    nylon or polyester are often used, as these fibers are less expensive than wool. The pile usually consists of
    twisted tufts which are typically heat-treated to maintain their structure. The term "carpet" is often used
    interchangeably with the term "rug", although the term "carpet" can be applied to a floor covering that covers an
    entire house, whereas a "rug" is generally no bigger than a single room, and traditionally does not even span
    from one wall to another, and is typically not even attached as part of the floor.

    Carpets are used for a variety of purposes, including insulating a person's feet from a cold tile or concrete floor,
    making a room more comfortable as a place to sit on the floor (e.g., when playing with children or as a prayer
    rug), reducing sound from walking (particularly in apartment buildings) and adding decoration or colour to a
    room. Carpets can be made in any colour by using differently dyed fibers. Carpets can have many different
    types of patterns and motifs used to decorate the surface. In the 2000s, carpets are used in industrial and
    commercial establishments such as retail stores and hotels and in private homes. In the 2010s, a huge range of
    carpets and rugs are available at many price and quality levels, ranging from inexpensive, synthetic carpets that
    are mass-produced in factories and used in commercial buildings to costly hand-knotted wool rugs which are
    used in private homes of wealthy families.

    Carpets can be produced on a loom quite similar to woven fabric, made using needle felts, knotted by hand (in
    oriental rugs), made with their pile injected into a backing material (called tufting), flatwoven, made by hooking
    wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric or embroidered. Carpet is commonly made in widths of 12
    feet (3.7 m) and 15 feet (4.6 m) in the USA, 4 m and 5 m in Europe. Since the 20th century, where necessary for
    wall-to-wall carpet, different widths of carpet can be seamed together with a seaming iron and seam tape
    (formerly it was sewn together) and fixed to a floor over a cushioned underlay (pad) using nails, tack strips
    (known in the UK as gripper rods), adhesives, or occasionally decorative metal stair rods. Wall-to-wall carpet is
    distinguished from rugs or mats, which are loose-laid floor coverings, as wall-to-wall carpet is fixed to the floor
    and covers a much larger area.

    Child labour has often been used in Asia for hand knotting rugs. The GoodWeave labelling scheme used
    throughout Europe and North America assures that child labour has not been used: importers pay for the labels,
    and the revenue collected is used to monitor centres of production and educate previously exploited children.[1]

    The term carpet comes from Old French carpite. One derivation of the term states that the French term came
    from the Old Italian carpita, from the verb "carpire" meaning to pluck.[2][3] The Online Etymology
    Dictionary states that the term "carpet" was first used in English in the late 13th century, with the meaning
    "coarse cloth", and by the mid-14th century, "tablecloth, [or] bedspread".[4] The Online Etymology Dictionary
    states that the term comes "...from Old French carpite "heavy decorated cloth, carpet," from Medieval Latin or
    Old Italian carpita "thick woolen cloth," probably from Latin carpere "to card, pluck," probably so called
    because it was made from unraveled, shred[d]ed, "plucked" fabric".[4] The meaning of the term "carpet" shifted
    in the 15th century to refer to floor coverings.[4]

    The term "carpet" is often used interchangeably with the term "rug". Some sources define a carpet as stretching
    from wall to wall.[5] Another definition treats rugs as of lower quality or of smaller size, with carpets quite often

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