Animal Print Rugs and Carpet
Collection
Animal print rugs to the trade
Animal print rugs to the trade: 182 styles that read as a skin, from Pampas Leather (44), Kane Carpet (27), Prestige Mills (25) and Couristan (23). The collection has two halves. 155 are woven or tufted patterns, Wilton (66), machine woven (16), tufted (14) and Axminster (13), in wool, wool blend, polypropylene and nylon; 44 are real hide from Pampas Leather, stitched into patchwork rugs that are sized rather than patterned. 181 are made to order.
By name the sub-looks run leopard and cheetah (about 22 styles), zebra (8), tiger (8, counting Bengal and Tigris), antelope and deer (7) and crocodile (3), with the rest filed under safari, menagerie and skins where a mill mixes them. Leopard print rug and antelope carpet are the classics: Stanton, Prestige Mills and Bellbridge weave them in wool Wilton with a small 12 to 24 inch repeat, which is why they turn a stair landing without a visible seam. A zebra rug reads bolder and is usually a bound rug or a runner; a tiger print rug is rarer and lives in Couristan's machine woven lines.
A designer specs animal print as a neutral with attitude. It hides soil on a stair, pairs with one solid in its own brown or black and takes the place of a stripe in a scheme; it fights a floral at the same scale. Any broadloom here is cut and bound to a rug of any size, with a leather or cotton border, through the custom program; a Pampas hide rug is made to the dimensions ordered in 6 to 8 weeks. Stairs are at stair runners; the broadloom patterns alone are at animal print carpet, the hides at leather and hide.
