Rug texture

Certain textures and types of design belong together. A naive hooked pattern in a close low pile worsted weave would be all wrong. So would a suave intricate Persian design in a rough looped pile.

Texture is just as important in plain carpet. Furnishings of the formal elaborate periods call for finely woven fabrics with a velvety finish. Provincial interiors demand coarse homespun-looking weaves.

Perhaps it is a mark of culture to be able to look at three chairs and know that one is Charles II, one late Italian Renaissance and one early Victorian.

Certainly the study of historic furniture and ornament can be an engrossing hobby, but it is not essential to the successful homemaker.