CARPET AND RUG INSTITUTE GREEN LABEL PLUS

Shag Carpet Rake

shag carpet


Shag is typically used to make deep-pile carpets. This is the oldest use of the term. Shag carpet is sometimes evoked as an example of the aesthetic from the culture of the 1970s in the United States.


A deep-pile carpet popular in the 1970s. It has long-cut surface yarns.

rake


A fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits


a dissolute man in fashionable society


move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair"


level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel"