Fitted carpet
As a carpet (even carpeting ), Swiss carpet, referred to a textile floor covering, the entire surface of the floor of a room covered.
Carpeting can be prepared by various methods: flocking, Klebepol process, needles, tufting, weaving or knitting. This can be used various fiber materials. Of course, vegetable fiber materials are cotton, jute, flax, coconut, hemp and sisal, natural- animal materials are wool, hair and silk. Chemical- cellulosic fiber materials are viscose and viscose staple fiber and synthetic synthetic fibers are nylon, polyester, acrylic and polypropylene. These fibers are used to pole or flat fabric. The service layers can be used as loop, cut pile, train / cut or cut / loop to be formed. Carpeting can be laid loose, glued, verklettet or twisted.
Carpeting on the walls is usually limited by a two to three inches high skirting boards. This is often made of plastic, into which a strip of material is glued, or only of the product which is in the overhead view umkettelt edge.
In Germany carpet is the flooring most commonly used by the square meter. He is sure-footed and sound-absorbing and can create a comfortable room atmosphere. Bleach -resistant special carpeting (eg from pigment-dyed fibers) can be used in conjunction with a flüssigkeitundurchlässigen back coating with high hygiene requirements in areas - be employed, provided the proper cleaning and disinfection - such as hospitals.
History
For insulation and decoration purposes earlier skins were placed on the ground. With the introduction of carpet from the Asian region over the land trade routes this was brought as a decorative element on the wall and later to an expression of financial strength and in Europe on the ground. It was used at this time in the bourgeois milieu plain woven area rugs, knotted rugs since had a high price. With the beginning of industrialization in Europe also free patterned rugs were made on looms. The widespread use today Carpets made of nylon fibers were first produced in 1952 by the company Long Life in Nettetal / Germany, a former Samtweberei.