High Pile and Plush Rugs
Collection
High pile rugs and shag rugs to the trade
High pile rugs to the trade: 49 shag, plush and deep loop styles with a face of three quarters of an inch or more, from Kane Carpet (12), Stanton (11), Pampas Leather (8) and Antrim (5). Wilton (10), hand-tufted (1), hand-loomed (11), machine woven (3) and tufted (11) are the constructions; polyester (6) leads the fibers because it takes a soft, lustrous shag, with wool (10), polypropylene (17) and the Pampas sheepskin and long-hair hides (8) behind. 46 are made to order.
A high pile rug is a bedroom, nursery and sitting room spec: softness underfoot, sound absorption and a visual weight a low pile cannot give. A shag rug has a pile of 1 to 3 inches in a twisted or looped yarn; a plush rug is a dense, straight cut pile around an inch, the velvet of the family; a high pile carpet wall to wall is usually a plush or a frieze from Kane Carpet or Stanton. Kane Carpet's Laguna Beach, Sweet Dreams and Eden Woods are the broadloom versions, bound to any size.
High pile vs low pile is a traffic decision and high pile loses in a dining room, a hallway, an entry and any home with a shedding dog. Doors need a half inch of clearance over the pile plus the pad, so check the swing before specifying a plush at a bedroom door; a felt pad under three eighths of an inch keeps the total in check. Vacuum a shag with the beater bar off. Custom sizes and colors in any broadloom plush are made through custom rugs; see low pile rugs, bedroom rugs and polyester.
