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Dining room rugs to the trade
Dining room rugs to the trade: 5,636 styles suited to a rug under a dining table, from Couristan (557), Prestige Mills (522), Harcourt Collection (520) and Kane Carpet (350). Hand-loomed (1,227), Wilton (957), tufted (988) and machine woven (833) lead the constructions, wool (2,061) and wool blend (1,187) the fibers; 433 can be made custom.
The dining room is a low pile room. Chairs have to slide, crumbs have to vacuum out and spills have to blot up, so specify a flatweave, a hand-loomed loop or a dense cut pile under a half inch in wool, a wool blend or a solution-dyed polypropylene, which is the pets and children answer. Viscose, silk and any shag are out; red wine does not come out of viscose. A thin felt pad, about an eighth of an inch, keeps the rug flat without lifting chair legs and a pattern or a heather hides the inevitable better than a solid.
The sizing rule is 24 inches past the table edge on every side so chairs stay on the rug when pulled out. A 42 by 72 inch table needs at least an 8x10; a table for eight needs a 9x12; a 48 inch round sits on an 8 foot round rug. Odd tables and banquettes get a rug cut and bound to the plan through the custom program. The dining room rug size guide has the table.
