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Stair
Runner F.A.Q.
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- Most of our various carpet runners, stair runners and stair
carpet runners are woven as continous roll runners
unlike our rug runners manufactured as rugs. What does it means for you ??? and how to to clarify those subtleties of grammar related to wonderful world of carpet and rugs.... * Let us start by the easiest and say that in fact Rug runners are before anything else....Rugs...available with a narrow rectangular shape and they generally come with borders on 4 sides. They are also having a special rug finish with bound ends and are serged / whipped with color coordinated yarn on the two side lengths. They are mostly used as hallways runners rather than stair runners. * As already said Stair runners or in fact stair carpet runners are for most of them woven as continuous roll runners. To do so we may use various carpet manufacturing processes which are the following ones : a) Wilton jacquard weaving on narrow looms (mainly 60cm/23.5'' 70cm/27.5'' 80cm/31.5'' 90cm/35.5'' 1m/39.3'' ) b) Axminster on narrow looms (mainly 69cm/27'' and 91cm/3' or 36'' wide looms) c) Wilton "face to face" broad looms Stair runners woven using a) or b) processes comes with woven selvedges (on each length sides) meaning that they will not fray and in fact, do not request any additional whipping or serging other than for decorative purpose. Carpet runners manufactured from c) are actually power loomed side-by-side on a 4m/13'1'' width. Then they are machine cut to their final width (66cm/26'' or 83cm/32.5'' ) and finished with a whipping/serging done with coordinated yarn on each length sides in order to prevent fraying. * Stair runners and stair carpet runners may both be finished by whipping/serging at both ends (or side up/side down) or left raw cuts to be adjusted or/and finished on site.
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