Flokati Rug

Flokati Rug

A Flokati rug is a plush, wool rug. They date back to 5th Century Greece, where they were used by Vlachs shepherds, near Samarina, Greece, which is the highest village in the Pindos mountains.

After the rug is hand-woven from 100% wool, each flokati rug is placed, for up to forty hours, in a soap-and–chemical-additive-free whirlpool bath filled with water from canal-channeled mountain streams from the Pindos river. It then emerges decadently thick because water pressure has caused its pile to swell. The flokati rug then is hung up to dry naturally, and “graded’ according to the weight of its wool. The heaviest, most luxurious flokati rugs weigh in at 4000 grams per square meter.

Even though these rugs have been a part of Greek tradition for centuries they are also a favorite of contemporary designers. Although many people prefer to them in their natural white, or off-white, state, flokati rugs are available in a variety of colors.

Flokati rugs are very popular today for teenagers or preteens. Althought they might attract attention to the children be careful because these rugs can be very frustrating to wash or clean if you child is accident prone. Especcially the white Flokati rugs that you might find for very cheap might not be made of wool and stain and get dirty very easily, unlike most.

Flokati rugs became well-known as a prize on the 1980s TV game show "Press Your Luck", where it often became the butt of jokes.


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  • flokati — noun A handwoven woolen rug with a thick pile …   Wiktionary

  • flokati — n. shaggy woolen Greek rug woven by hand …   English contemporary dictionary

  • flokati —    (floh KAH tee) [Modern Greek] A heavy woollen rug, once handmade in Greece, with a long, shaggy pile …   Dictionary of foreign words and phrases

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