The convicts were rewarded with the 12-year job of weaving the hall carpet, the largest in Asia.

The sizes also vary from narrow hall carpets to large room designs, often up to 4 x 5m.

He moved down it, his shoes giving off no sound against the hall carpet.

I said, looking at the hall carpet first, then back up at Sally.

They made hoarse whispering noises on the rough nap of the hall carpet.

Lord Tolocamp has been complaining again about the wear on the main hall carpets.

"Wait here," she said, indicating the exact position on the hall carpet.

It was probably just as well; by the musty smell, nobody had cleaned the hall carpet for years.

Before that, there had been the careful padding of feet across the hall carpet.

The doors whispered open, I wandered over the moss they used for a hall carpet and came to a door marked 814.