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2. Afghan rug - Wikipedia

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   An Afghan rug (or Afghan carpet [1]) is a type of handwoven floor-covering textile traditionally made in the northern and western areas of Afghanistan, [2] [3] mainly by Afghan Turkmens and Uzbeks. [1] [4] The industry is being expanded to all 34 provinces of Afghanistan. [5] Afghan rugs have won a number of international awards.

3. Knot density - Wikipedia

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   Knot density is a traditional measure for quality of handmade or knotted pile carpets. It refers to the number of knots, or knot count, per unit of surface area - typically either per square inch ( kpsi) or per square centimeter ( kpsc ), but also per decimeter or meter ( kpsd or kpsm ). Number of knots per unit area is directly proportional to ...

4. Stair rod - Wikipedia

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   A stair rod, also commonly referred to as a carpet rod, is an ornamental decorative hardware item used to hold carpeting in place on steps. [ 1] (. Such long but narrow strips of carpeting are known as carpet runners or stair runners or stair carpet ). [ 2] Traditionally, stair rods were used to hold a carpet runner in place on stairs, but with ...

5. Oriental rug - Wikipedia

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   Islamic culture. An oriental rug is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in "Oriental countries" for home use, local sale, and export. Oriental carpets can be pile woven or flat woven without pile, [ 1] using various materials such as silk, wool, cotton, jute and animal hair. [ 2]

6. Lumber - Wikipedia

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   Lumber is the most common and widely used method of sawing logs. Plain sawn lumber is produced by making the first cut on a tangent to the circumference of the log. Each additional cut is then made parallel to the one before. This method produces the widest possible boards with the least amount of log waste.

7. Laminated veneer lumber - Wikipedia

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   Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is an engineered wood product that uses multiple layers of thin wood assembled with adhesives. It is typically used for headers, beams, rimboard, and edge-forming material. LVL offers several advantages over typical milled lumber: Made in a factory under controlled specifications, it is stronger, straighter, and ...