What does damask style mean?

Damask is a reversible, jacquard-patterned fabric, meaning that the pattern is woven into the fabric, instead of printed on it. Damasks can be made from a variety of different textiles, including silk, linen, cotton, wool, or synthetic fibers, like rayon.

What kind of material is damask?

Damask refers to a broad group of woven fabrics made on a jacquard loom. It’s a patterned cotton fabric distinguished by using contrasting luster. The contrasting luster is created by utilizing a satin weave in combination with a sateen, twill or plain weave. It is reversible, and known for being regal in effect.

What are the different styles of rugs?

Rug Styles. True Oriental rugs are woven or knotted by hand using wool or silk fibers and feature ornate patterns.
Animal Print Rugs. Animal Print rugs have an all-over pattern or parts of a pattern.
Border Rugs.
Chevron Rugs.
Coastal Rugs.
Distressed Rugs.
Floral Rugs.
Geometric Rugs.

What does it mean when a rug is printed?

Printed versus Dyed Machine made rugs however can be either dyed or printed. When a rug is printed, it means that it was woven with white piles and then printed over the entire surface of the rug. These are much cheaper, but don’t wear nearly as well as dyed rugs.

Is damask a polyester?

2. Damask. This is a woven fabric that will be on the majority of mattresses. That said there is a world of difference between a cheap shiny polyester ‘Damask’ and a true woven Viscose (plant fibre) blend Damask.

What are those fancy rugs called?

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, using various materials such as silk, wool, and cotton.

How do you tell if a rug is printed?

One of the best ways to tell the difference between hand knotted and machine made rugs is to look at the back of the rug. In hand knotted rugs the weaving and the knots will be slightly uneven and not perfectly uniform. On the other hand, a machine made rug will look very uniform and perfectly even.

What is a digital printed rug?

Manufacturers now have the ability to create custom printed rugs. This technology gives the opportunity for clients to provide an image and produce a digital custom printed rug, by printing the image on the most common rug materials including nylon, polyester, and wool.