I went to an exclusive apartment in Manchester last week on a strange mission.
Although the carpet in the lounge and bedroom (and doormat! - but more of this later) was all the same it had only been fitted about a month earlier.
Now I know that new carpet will shed a certain amount of fibre, but this was ridiculous!
You only had to rub your hand over the carpet in a gently fashion and you would have great dollops of fairly long-stranded fibre collecting in your hand.
The client had asked me to clean the carpet to remove the excess fluff.
Now, I know what new carpet fluff looks like -and this wasn't it.
My thoughts were that it was probably some form of very, very soft (and hence expensive) wool like marino or even cashmere. (I've come across a cashmere sofa before now- and it was interesting to clean to say the least).
And how can you have a door-mat made out of this stuff when a mat is designed for you to wipe your feet on ?
What thoughts might the rest of you have about what it might be; will it settle down; what can be done to speed the settling down process up; and finally is it one of those things that interior designers think of which look and sound lovely but are totally impracticable.
(BTW the rest of the floors were white painted concrete and the 10x8 foot "picture" on the wall was in fact a living sculpture-it was a piece of moss(!!) which had to be watered twice a week!
Roger