Shag (fabric)

A shag is a rug or carpet that has a deep pile, giving it a shaggy appearance."Definition of SHAG". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 25 September 2016.</ref>

Close-up of the pile of a shag carpet, including two popular colors of the 1970s: avocado and harvest gold

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Rugs and carpets
Rugs	Afghan Alcaraz Bakshaish Bessarabian Braided Caucasian Catalogne Chobi Dhurrie Flokati Kashmiri Lilihan Mughal Navajo Oriental Pakistani Petate Persian Abadeh Ahar Arak Ardabil Azerbaijani Bakhtiari Bakshaish Bidjar Borujerd Gabbeh Heriz Isfahan Jozan Karadagh Kashan Kashmar Kerman Kilim Kurdish Mashhad Nain Qom Sarouk Seraband Shahsevan rug Shiraz Tabriz Varamin Zanjan Quba Rya Scandinavian Seychour Tibetan Turkmen Uzbek Uzbek Julkhyr Uzbek Napramach Yürük
Carpets	Armenian Axminster Bellini Berber Bergama Bessarabian Bradford Caucasian Chiprovtsi Crivelli Ersari Fitted Gabbeh Hereke Karabakh Konya Holbein Lilihan Lotto Memling Milas Persian Pirot Quba Sarouk Swedish Turkish Ushak Yomut
People	James F. Ballard Sir Francis Crossley Kurt Erdmann Arthur T. Gregorian Arshag Karagheusian Latif Karimov Julius Lessing William Morris George H. Myers Arthur Upham Pope Alois Riegl Friedrich Sarre Wilhelm von Bode Thomas Whitty Charles T. Yerkes
Places	Azerbaijan Carpet Museum Carpet Museum of Iran Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah Brukenthal National Museum Kidderminster Louvre Mevlana Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art Miho Museum Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest) Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Museo Poldi Pezzoli Museum of Textiles (Lyon) Pergamon Museum Saint Louis Art Museum Textile Museum (George Washington University) Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum Turkmen Carpet Museum Victoria and Albert Museum Wilton
Cleaning	Carpet cleaning Dry carpet cleaning Floorcloth Hot water extraction Truckmount carpet cleaner Vacuum cleaner
Fabrics	Frieze Shag
Manufacture and installation	Ghiordes and Senneh knots Knot density Pile Rubia Rug hooking Rug making Tack strip Underlay Warp and weft
Dyes	Natural dye Synthetic dye Madder (Rubia tinctorum) Indigofera tinctoria Carmine Cochineal Armenian cochineal Polish cochineal Dyes in Uzbekistan
Manufacturers	Axminster Carpets Brintons Cormar Carpets Dilmaghani DOBAG Carpet Initiative A & M Karagheusian Savonnerie manufactory Ziegler & Co.
Carpets in culture	Eagle rug Early Anatolian animal carpets Gul Kilim motifs Elibelinde Evil eye Tree of life Magic carpet Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting Pictorial carpet Prayer rug Red carpet Transylvanian rugs War rugs
Notable individual carpets	Ardabil Carpet Armenian Orphan Rug Badding Rug Bahar-e Kasra Coronation Carpet

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Shag (fabric)

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