March 2010

Exotic Carpets to Decorate Your Home

Carpet is the accessory of a floor that not only enhance the floor but change the look of the whole room and home. It is one of those accessories that immediately affect the ambiance and carry an air of elegance. Carpet can be very thick soft and thin. Most of the floor carpets are made from wool or other hand made fibers that are twisted to form the carpets and rugs which we use in living room, bed room, kitchen and other areas of our home.

The term carpet is derived from the Italian word carpita, "carpire" which means to pluck. depending upon the style the carpets are made these can be woven, needlefelt, knotted, tufted, flat weaved, hooked rug and more.

There are many types of fibers that are used to make carpets. The most common ones are:

Wool
Nylon
Polyester
Polypropylene
PTT (Polytrimethylene terephthalate)

There are many categories of carpet depending upon the location where these are made. The most popular ones are:

Persian carpets
Turkish carpets
Pakistani carpets
Oriental carpets
English carpets
French carpets

Bold and Vibrant Carpet

Bright Sunny Carpet

Earthy COlored Carpet for Formal Room

Carpet Flooring

Shagg Rug

Exotic Carpet

Why to Choose Bamboo Fabric?

The awareness of bamboo fabric is much lesser than the cotton and other natural fabrics like silk and hemp but it is better than many organic fabrics in most of the ways.

Bamboo plant has the special anti bacterial element called 'kun' that is retained in the bamboo fabric also. The kun does not allow the bacterial to settle down on the fabric thus there will not be any mold. mildew growth on bamboo fabric. With this bamboo fabric is 100% safe for the people who are allergic to these.
Bamboo is a kind of grass and in one season you can have at least six crops from the same root. But on the other hand cotton is repeated and sown to get the cotton.
Bamboo naturally enriches the soil.
Bamboo plant keeps the air around it cleaner than the cotton plant.
There is no requirement of chemicals and fertilizers to grow bamboo plant thus no such thing will be there in bamboo fabric.

Light Fabrics are Welcoming the Summers

Gone are the chilly winters and warm heavy clothes. Now is the time for summers and it is the light fabrics that are welcoming this season. Fashion aficionados are all set to buy cotton fabric having trendy prints and patterns. Even for the home furnishing people are now buying light colored curtains but made of thick fabric to cut the Sunlight. But if we talk about bed sheet and bed linen then it is the cotton that is going to rule the market.

Along with cotton it is the bamboo fabric that will bring change in the home furnishing market. Bamboo is a natural and organic fabric that is better than cotton in feel and hypoallergenic properties. There is a natural element called kun in bamboo that resist mildew attack and keep bamboo fabric mites, dust, mold and mildew free. Also bamboo has a very natural appeal to create natural as well as traditional look. Bamboo fabric curtains, bamboo bead curtains, bamboo blinds all are in vogue. Also the products made from bamboo fabric are cheap and affordable.

For summer pick the prints that are natural so that you have the cool environment. Besides these two summer fabrics you can also pick the cool nylon. Linen is also a good option but it gets wrinkle very easily. In the category of summer fabrics polyester also marks its presence. Polyester is the man made fabric but extensively used in home furnishing products. It does not wrinkle like cotton and linen but has the feel of cotton.