Our various runners and stairs carpet runners stock ranges are still woven by craftsmen on traditional Axminster or Wilton Jacquard looms, and with pile velvets made of 100% pure wool or 80% wool and 20% nylon.

The Stair Rods Online collection (maybe one the most important available now) offer a unique choice of more than 200 carpet runner, stair runner and rug runner options available from stock.

Also most of our various carpet runners, stair runners and stair carpet runners,are woven as continous roll runners unlike our rug runners manufactured as rugs.

What does it means for you ??? and how to to clarify those subtleties of grammar related to the "wonderful world of carpet and rugs"...

* Let us start by the easiest and say that in fact Rug runners are before anything else...Rugs...available with a narrow rectangular shape and they generally come with borders on 4 sides. Rug runners can also be manufactured custommade either woven or handmade by handtufting.

When woven on face to face wilton looms, they are also having a special rug finish with bound ends and are serged / whipped with color coordinated yarn on the two side lengths

However, they are mostly used as hallways runners (or Hallway rug runners) rather than stair runners

* As already said Stair runners or in fact stair carpet runners are for most of them woven as continuous roll runners

To do so we may use various carpet manufacturing processes which are the following ones :

a) Wilton jacquard weaving on narrow looms (mainly 60cm/23.5'' 70cm/27.5'' 80cm/31.5'' 90cm/35.5'' 1m/39.3'' )

b) Axminster on narrow looms (mainly 69cm/27'' and 91cm/3' or 36'' wide looms)

c) Wilton "face to face" broad looms

Stair runners woven using a) or b) processes comes with woven selvedges (on each length sides) meaning that they will not fray and in fact, do not request any additional whipping or serging other than for decorative purpose

Carpet runners and stair carpet runners manufactured from c) are actually power loomed side-by-side on a 4m/13'1'' width then they are machine cut to their final width (66cm/26'' or 83cm/32.5'') and finished with a whipping/serging done with coordinated yarn on each length sides in order to prevent fraying

* Stair runners and stair carpet runners may both be finished by whipping/serging at both ends (or side up/side down) or left raw cuts to be adjusted or/and finished on site

Carpet runners may also be woven custom made in other widths than the one offered for stock items, please contact us for minimum quantity : contact