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

[Caren Albercook (calbercook]

You can't set up playmobil on a braided rug, I've
tried.  Caren
--- Stuart Joseph <stuart [at] caercoburn.org> wrote:

> 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:
> > Trudy Reeves <trudyreeves [at] yahoo.com>
> > is the author of the message below.
> > It was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager
> <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
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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
> >
> > ----- 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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