dhurrie

A dark pool stained an area the size of a basketball on the dhurrie rug below her legs.

The leather cube was gone from the room, as was the stained dhurrie.

The cotton dhurrie is warm in winters and cool in summers.

His first room, he recalled, was a corner space with lots of light, plum colored walls, and a blue dhurrie rug.

I didn't vacuum the mud-caked dhurrie, I just flipped it over.

Local household industries produce carved wooden objects, textiles, and dhurrie carpets.

Finally, he decided to make a wool dhurrie and persuaded a reluctant weaver in the town of Mirzapur to produce it.

Khairabad in Uttar Pradesh is a major dhurrie making centre.

Mr. McCoy added a blue, flat dhurrie rug, like an indoor pool.

A burglar leaves a pile of excrement as a calling card (on "a lovely old dhurrie," no less).

He founded a business, Fabindia Ltd., that bought locally produced items like dhurrie rugs and exported them.

Magazines, a crystal ashtray, several art deco bowls and a flower vase were strewn over the dhurrie rug.

Our antique- and plant-laden upstairs bedroom featured a dhurrie rug with squares of herbs and birds.

But, Mr. Ahuja recalled, "I couldn't find one person who could weave a cotton dhurrie."

A dhurrie (also durrie or durry) is a thick flat-woven rug or carpet used traditionally in India as floor-coverings.

Before the fireplace she arranged an intimate seating area with rose velvet chairs, a blue sofa draped with a woolly afghan and a blue-and-rose dhurrie rug.

A Map Jodhpur is renowned for its village safaris - jeep trips to local Bishnoi villages, potters and dhurrie (rug) weavers.

All of the above sit on a dhurrie found on sale at Lord & Taylor, prized by Mr. Kelley for its border in a Greek key design.

The concept of dhurrie is different from a rug or carpet, but since the dhurries serve the same purpose as carpet or rugs they can be described as one.

More books, ranging from advanced engineering texts to classics of Asian and Western literature, bulged from the inadequate bookshelves or accumulated in stacks upon the simple dhurrie carpet covering the floor.

For dhurrie carpets, visit Shyam Ahuja in the basement of the Shree Niketan Building on Dr. Annie Besant Road in Worli.

The room, with its pale pink walls, a dhurrie rug on a pink sand-colored tile floor and bed covered with a luxurious throw of pink, sand and brown, was appointed with every amenity.

Examples include "One Nation Out of Cod," "Dory Dhurrie," "Pisces Sancti (Holy Mackerel)" and "Salmon Chanted Evening."

The polished hardwood floor was almost completely covered with a dhurrie rug of pale blue and green geometrical designs against a field of white, and the furniture was white and angular with small pillows in pastels.

The brass bed has elaborate silk hangings; with it are a dhurrie bedside carpet, a gateleg field table, four monogrammed mahogany Regency chairs with brass inlays, a portable dispatch box, a book cupboard and a washstand.