Polyurethanes are used in the manufacture of flexible, high-resilience foam seating ; rigid foam insulation panels ; microcellular foam seals and gaskets ; durable elastomeric wheels and tires ; automotive suspension bushings ; electrical potting compounds ; high performance adhesives ; surface coatings and surface sealants ; synthetic fibers ( e. g., Spandex ); carpet underlay ; and hard-plastic parts ( e. g., for electronic instruments ).

The tog is a measure of thermal resistance, commonly used in the textile industry, and often seen quoted on, for example, duvets and carpet underlay.

An underlay will extend carpet life and improve comfort.

Carpeting is more than just a single item ; it is, in fact, a system comprising the carpet itself, the carpet backing ( often made of latex ), the cushioning underlay, and a method of installation.

When asked what happened, John finds the blood symbol used by the Posse during the murders vandalized on a carpet the next day and gets information about it from a Jamaican voodoo and gang expert named Leslie ( Pacula ) who works part time as a detective.

Battle of Lepanto, part of a 19th-century carpet in a museum in Gennep, Netherlands.

W. G. Sebald's book, On the Natural History of Destruction, comments on the carpet bombing of German cities and asks why it does not play a larger part in the German national consciousness, and why virtually no German authors have written about the events.

The carpet industry in India flourished more in its northern part with major centers found in Kashmir, Jaipur, Agra and Bhadohi.

The Persian carpet is a part of Persian ( Iranian ) art and culture.

The Chiprovtsi carpet ( Чипровски килим ) is a type of handmade carpet with two absolutely identical sides, part of Bulgarian national heritage, traditions, arts and crafts.

Machine woven carpet is an investment that will last 20 or 30 years and woven Axminster and Wilton carpets are still extremely popular in areas where longevity and design flexibility are a big part of the purchasing decision.

As part of the 2010 refurbishment, the restaurant has been completely redecorated in the art deco style, with a leopard pattern carpet.

During his time on the station, he took part in experiments suggested by the public, including flying a " magic carpet ", folding laundry and push ups.

Clean room sticky mats can contain two defensive barriers: the first part is a carpet itself, while the second part is sticky surface mat.

Y10 Missoni: With the arrival of autumn, in October 1987, comes the Y10 Missoni, derived from the Fire LX and signed by the famous fashion designer Ottavio Missoni ( which will appear in a television spot next to his creation ), he has chosen for a body exclusive and unique Memphis Blue metallic ( black door ), with matching interior fabrics, made ​​ of hazelnut Alcantara dashboard and door panels, seats while adopting a fabric " Missonato " velvet stripes, the carpet is coordinated with the exterior color, and to make recognizable this version, in the final part of the side, halfway between the rib and the rear window, is applied an adhesive of the mark Missoni.

The Persian carpet (, farsh, meaning " to spread "; sometimes qāli ) is an essential part of Persian art and culture.

As part of Operation Cobra, an effort to break out of the Normandy hedgerows, US Army Air Corps bombers from England were sent to carpet bomb a one by three mile corridor through German defenses in preparation for the 30th to lead the breakout.

A Wilton style carpet colored crimson, azure blue and gold was rewoven as part of the restoration.

This image is part of a promotional brochure produced in the early 1980s by The World Government of the Age of Enlightenment, ( a branch of Transcendental Meditation ) the former owners of Mentmore Towers, who occupied the near empty house and gave flying lessons there ( not London to New York, but straight up and down while sitting on a magic carpet or whatever ).

The flute part of the song is performed by George's in-house gardener ( who also trims his grass carpet with chattery teeth ).

Many visitors are attracted by the beautiful carpet of gorse and heather which surrounds the lighthouse and merges with sand dunes stretching to the south-west, providing cover for rare wild flowers and forming part of a Manx National Nature Reserve.

Thurman created a gasoline-powered carpet cleaner for the General Compressed Air Company.

After the Spanish civil war General Franco revived the carpet weaving industry in workshops named after him, weaving designs that are influenced by earlier Spanish carpets, usually in a very limited range of colours.

Aircraft baggage would be handled by Hudson General and the interiour cleaning and lav and potable service, carpet replacement, seat back and seat coverer replacement was handled by Canadian Airlines Cleaning department at airports within CA operations.

The old rituals were revived by President Estrada, when an arriving diplomat disembarked from his car at General Solano Street and boards what is called a chariot, a luxurious open jeep where the occupant stands on a red carpet holding onto a stout bar while progressing up J. P. Laurel Street to the Palace grounds.

Whether she's shopping for bargains on snacks and corn-shaped corn cob holders at Dollar General, ghostwriting her cat's diary (" It's 3 a. m. A few minutes ago, I just coughed up a hairball the size of a snow globe on the bedroom carpet …"), or giving tips on throwing the ultimate pity party, Schneider is consistent down to the doodles that have graced many a pre-adolescent's notebooks ... Rabid fans will devour the wit, but those with a passing interest, or less, will likely be disappointed.

General Omar Bradley, his ground forces stymied, had decided to use carpet bombing to break the German lines.

There are four or five accepted and cognate meanings of spandrel in architectural and art history, mostly relating to the space between a curved figure and a rectangular boundary-such as the space between the curve of an arch and a rectilinear bounding moulding, or the wallspace bounded by adjacent arches in an arcade and the stringcourse or moulding above them, or the space between the central medallion of a carpet and its rectangular corners, or the space between the circular face of a clock and the corners of the square revealed by its hood.

Shirāz is famous for its carpet production and flowers as well.

This is often primarily a visual deterrent since a well prepared burglar can breach barbed wire and barbed tape barriers in similar amounts of time, using simple techniques such as cutting the wire or throwing a piece of old carpet over its strands.

Some better known species that represent the diversity of the genus include the Common Fig which is a small temperate deciduous tree whose fingered fig leaf is well known in art and iconography ; the Weeping Fig ( F. benjamina ) a hemi-epiphyte with thin tough leaves on pendulous stalks adapted to its rain forest habitat ; the rough-leaved sandpaper figs from Australia ; the Creeping Fig ( F. pumila ), a vine whose small, hard leaves form a dense carpet of foliage over rocks or garden walls.

Axminster gave its name to a type of carpet.

In 1825 ( or 1827 ), the Tariff Manufacturing Company built a carpet mill along the Farmington River, giving its name to the area.

Orrin Thompson, from whom the community takes its name, built a dam across Freshwater Brook in 1828 and opened the first carpet mill in 1829.

After the Civil War ended in 1865, Adairsville rebuilt and became a hub for the carpet and textile industries, and for farm and transportation services, including its famous railroad.

To its west lies another residential area, Firthcliffe, named for the carpet factory once located here along the banks of Moodna Creek.

* Baix Vinalopó or Bajo Vinalopó: 290, 481 inhabitants ; its capital is Elche ; agriculture, footwear and carpet industry, tourism ; Misteri d ' Elx festival and services with Alicante Airport in municipality of Elche.

The Chinese Muslims even forced the Uighur carpet industry at Khotan to change its design to Chinese versions.

The other sophisticated tradition was the Persian carpet which reached its peak in the 16th and early 17th century in works like the Ardabil Carpet and Coronation Carpet ; during this century the Ottoman and Mughal courts also began to sponsor the making in their domains of large formal carpets, evidently with the involvement of designers used to the latest court style in the general Persian tradition.

In 1999, candidates stood for the board on platform similar to ' carpet bagging ' attempts with mutual building societies ; whilst this was roundly defeated, controversy over its cash reserves remained.

In just a few short years Trek had outgrown its original “ red barn ” manufacturing facility — a former carpet warehouse.

The Great Depression devastated the economy of the area with its textile, carpet, glass and other light industry.

Under Shah Jahan's reign, Mughal carpet weaving took on a new aesthetic and entered its classical phase.

In recent decades, however, the Chiprovtsi carpet industry has been in decline as it had lost its firm foreign markets.

The town of Wilton, Wiltshire is also known for its carpet weaving, which dates back to the 18th century.

Minkow needed another infusion of cash, and thought he had it when he heard that KeyServ, the authorized carpet cleaner for Sears, was being sold by its British parent.

These paths will take you over the open chalk downland of Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire, home to Britains longest surviving geocache, with its impressive monument to the Buckinghamshire men who died in the Boer War, or walk to the pretty hamlet of Dunsmore in the spring and enjoy the carpet of bluebells, or enjoy the shaded woods on Haddington Hill and Boddington Hill, belonging to Forest Enterprise ( known locally as ' Wendover Woods ').

In February, Klass presented the red carpet coverage of the BAFTA Awards 2007 for Orange Mobile and its online services.

Its 20th Century Limited, begun in 1902, ran from Grand Central Terminal in New York to LaSalle Street Station Chicago and was its most famous train, known for its red carpet treatment and first class service.