National Lumpy Rug Day is observed each year on May 3. There are two variations to the meaning of this day.
Some people view National Lumpy Rug day as a day to appreciate a good, clean rug and incorporate that into spring cleaning. Along with this is to enjoy the old lumpy rugs and the comfort they have brought to your home.
The other variation is to look at National Lumpy Rug Day as sweeping unwelcome facts and issues you do not want to deal with “under the rug.” With either variation, it is a day to take action.
- The oldest surviving carpet is the celebrated Pazyryk carpet, which is over 2,000 years old. It was found in the 1940s in a Scythian tomb in southern Siberia
- The phrase “to sweep under the carpet” in its figurative sense was first recorded in 1963
- Each year, several pounds of soil can accumulate in and under a carpet
- A person sheds about 1.5 million skin flakes an hour, most of which becomes embedded in our carpets.
- To make a carpet brighter, sprinkle salt onto the carpet and let it stand for an hour before vacuuming it up. Salt is also effective in removing muddy footprints
- In the Middle Ages, floors were covered with rushes, which acted like a disposable carpet. If it got dirty, it was thrown away.
- Dust mites thrive in warm, humid environments, eating dead skin cells and nesting in dust-collecting carpet. The residue that mites leave behind can mix with dust and become airborne, which may cause allergies.
- The vacuum cleaner is based on Edmund Heming’s 1699 invention of a street-sweeping machine.
- Red carpets traditionally marked the ceremonial and formal routes of leaders and politicians. The first reference to a “red carpet” is Agamemnon (458 B.C.) by Aeschylus.
- Oriental carpets first became highly prized possessions in Europe during the Middle Ages when the crusaders likely returned home with them. The influence was very unilateral, with Europe hardly influencing the design of Oriental carpets.
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