Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Kids room flooring....

[Oilcloth International/Cardie Molina (oilcloth]

There is also DIY interest in floor cloths which can be researched at
www.fredixfloorcloths.com 

Cardie 

"A New Oilcloth Makes the Whole Family Happy"(TM)
 
Oilcloth International, Inc.
www.oilcloth.com 
Phone: 323-344-3967 Fax 323-344-0409/259-5951
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Joseph [mailto:stuart [at] caercoburn.org] 
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:51 AM
To: Cohousing-L
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Kids room flooring....

Braided rugs go back to at least the 18th Century, an example of using 
everything they could so as not to waste it.

The rugs regained their popularity during the Colonial Revivals of the 
1930's-1950's.

Fred H Olson wrote:
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> What a great idea.  When I was a child (many more than 30 years ago:-)
> braided rugs were in every room.
>
> Trudy
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrew Netherton <andrewnetherton [at] gmail.com>
> To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:05:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Kids room flooring....
>
>
> Back 30+ years ago when I was born a friend of my mother's made me a
> throw rug out or scraps of fabric.  It's called a braided rug - it
> looks like a huge flat coil of braided fabric.  (See
> http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=braided%20rug for many, many
> examples.)
>
> In any case, this rug has lasted.  It needs a good cleaning right now,
> but is in as good a shape now as I've ever known it to be.  It's 100%
> post-consumer content, recyclable (where you have textile recycling,
> anyways), resilient (good protection for little noggins from hard
> floors), and quite colourful.  No offgassing (assuming you use natural
> fibre fabrics), just the need to be rolled up and taken to a
> commercial laundromat once in a while.  Flop it down on top of
> whatever flooring you've got and have at it!
>
> Once our cohousing development moves in (many years hence,
> unfortunately) this is the kind of roll-on-the-floor surface I'll be
> suggesting to our group.  Hey, maybe if I start now, I can have a few
> rugs done by the time we move in... :)
>
> Andrew Netherton
> Laurel Creek Commons (forming)
> Waterloo, ON, Canada
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-- 
Stuart Joseph, 802-463-1954
Project Director
Caer Coburn, a traditional village based upon  and intentional communities
Rockingham, Vermont, USA
http://www.caercoburn.org

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