The famous Pazyryk carpet discovered is the oldest surviving wool pile oriental rug.

He pushed with both hands and then laid his shoulder on the paneling, bracing his sneakers against the thick wool pile of a champagne-soaked runner.

"It filled your room and it had thick wool pile that was cozy to sit on," my mother explained 30 years later, a little ruefully.

The simplest "fish fur" of ushankas was made of wool pile with cloth substrate and cloth top, with the exception of flaps, in which pile was exposed.

Typical manufacturing used an asymmetrical knot on cotton foundation, but rare examples include silk or part silk piles, or silk foundations with wool pile.

It was softly lit, carpeted in a rich brown wool pile, and furnished with a burnt brown leather sofa and two suede wing chairs.

The six-foot-long zebra-striped rug is made of wool pile; $475 at La Maison Moderne, 144 West 19th Street.

The foundation is of silk with wool pile of a knot density at 300-350 knots per square inch (470-540.000 knots per square metres, i.e. 26 million total knots).

Patch, top, is a hand-knotted wool pile and leather rug by Bill Amberg, a British designer known for leather fashion accessories.

This was one of the few rooms with carpeting, a thick wool pile that Quincy liked to pace when trying to come up with the right turn of phrase.