Main Difference
The main difference between Carpet and Drugget is that the Carpet is a textile floor covering and Drugget is a wool or part-wool fabric popular in the 18th century
Carpet
A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but, since the 20th century, synthetic fibers such as polypropylene, nylon or polyester are often used, as these fibers are less expensive than wool. The pile usually consists of twisted tufts which are typically heat-treated to maintain their structure. The term “carpet” is often used interchangeably with the term “rug”, although the term “carpet” can be applied to a floor covering that covers an entire house, whereas a “rug” is generally no bigger than a single room, and traditionally does not even span from one wall to another, and is typically not even attached as part of the floor.
Carpets are used for a variety of purposes, including insulating a person’s feet from a cold tile or concrete floor, making a room more comfortable as a place to sit on the floor (e.g., when playing with children or as a prayer rug), reducing sound from walking (particularly in apartment buildings) and adding decoration or colour to a room. Carpets can be made in any colour by using differently dyed fibers. Carpets can have many different types of patterns and motifs used to decorate the surface. In the 2000s, carpets are used in industrial and commercial establishments such as retail stores and hotels and in private homes. In the 2010s, a huge range of carpets and rugs are available at many price and quality levels, ranging from inexpensive, synthetic carpets that are mass-produced in factories and used in commercial buildings to costly hand-knotted wool rugs which are used in private homes of wealthy families.
Carpets can be produced on a loom quite similar to woven fabric, made using needle felts, knotted by hand (in oriental rugs), made with their pile injected into a backing material (called tufting), flatwoven, made by hooking wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric or embroidered. Carpet is commonly made in widths of 12 feet (3.7 m) and 15 feet (4.6 m) in the US, 4 m and 5 m in Europe. Since the 20th century, where necessary for wall-to-wall carpet, different widths of carpet can be seamed together with a seaming iron and seam tape (formerly it was sewn together) and fixed to a floor over a cushioned underlay (pad) using nails, tack strips (known in the UK as gripper rods), adhesives, or occasionally decorative metal stair rods. Wall-to-wall carpet is distinguished from rugs or mats, which are loose-laid floor coverings, as wall-to-wall carpet is fixed to the floor and covers a much larger area.
The GoodWeave labelling scheme used throughout Europe and North America assures that child labour has not been used: importers pay for the labels, and the revenue collected is used to monitor centres of production and educate previously exploited children.
Drugget
Druggett or drugget is “a coarse woollen fabric felted or woven, self-coloured or printed one side”. Jonathan Swift refers to being “in druggets drest, of thirteen pence a yard”.Formerly, a drugget was a sort of cheap stuff, very thin and narrow, usually made of wool, or half wool and half silk or linen; it may have been corded but was usually plain. The term is now applied to a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling, used for rugs, tablecloths, etc.
Carpet (noun)
A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
Carpet (noun)
Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
Carpet (noun)
A wrought cover for tables.
Carpet (noun)
A woman’s pubic hair.
Carpet (verb)
To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
“After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.”
“The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.”
Carpet (verb)
To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
“Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.”
Carpet (verb)
To reprimand.
Drugget (noun)
An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing. from 16thc.
Drugget (noun)
A floor covering made of drugget. from 17thc.
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