Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. coverings and hangings
8. [coverings and hangings by specific type]
9. [coverings and hangings by form]
10. rugs (textiles)
11. [rugs by technique]
12. pile-woven carpets
13. Brussels carpets

Narrower term/s

• velvet carpets (tapestry carpets)

Anotations

Scope note:

Carpets created to look similar to the traditional body Brussels carpet, but produced by a cheaper method. For tapestry Brussels carpets, designs are printed on the warp yarns before the carpet is woven, rather than dyed-in-the-skein yarn used and the design produced in the weaving. Tapestry Brussels carpets may be machine printed or drum printed. One process to make these textiles involved a large cylinder or drum around which yarns were wound, then colored by a mechanism or by hand.