Low Pile Rugs
Collection
Low pile rugs to the trade
Low pile rugs to the trade: 488 styles with a pile height of a half inch or less, from Harcourt Collection (265), DMI (47), Stanton Rug Co (30) and AF Rug Designs (24). Hand-loomed (283) is the dominant construction, the flat wool loop and cut and loop the trade specifies most; flatweave (44), hand-knotted (88), machine woven (32) and Wilton (38) follow, in wool (362), wool blend (94), sisal and jute (56) and nylon (55). 380 are made to order and 108 are custom.
A low pile rug is one whose face is under a half inch, including a flat pile rug with no loft at all and it answers most of the questions a designer asks of a rug. Doors clear it. Dining chairs slide on it. A vacuum runs over it without catching, pet hair sits on top rather than in it and a pattern reads sharp because the yarn is not leaning. It is the construction for a dining room, a hallway, an entry, an office with a rolling chair and a living room that is walked through. The trade-off is hand: a half inch loop in wool is comfortable, a flatweave is firm and neither is the barefoot softness of a plush.
High pile vs low pile comes down to the room: high pile for a bedroom or a sitting room, low pile everywhere else. Here the Harcourt Collection hand-loomed wools are the mid-priced workhorses, Stanton Rug Co and DMI the natural fiber flatweaves and Prestige Mills the broadloom cut and bound to a low pile area rug of any size; a low pile runner rug is the same loop in a 2 foot 6 inch width. Every style here can be sized through the custom program; see hand-loomed, flatweave and high pile rugs.
