When you cut a piece of carpet it frays the edges of the underlying mesh on the cut side.
The carpet people what is fray.
In the author s note of the revised edition published in 1992 pratchett wrote.
We recommend having your carpets professionally cleaned at least once a year.
It is that very same friction and grinding that causes your precious carpet fibers to fray and separate.
My first association on reading the carpet people and the description of fray was to think ah.
This book had two authors and they were both the same person the carpet people contains much of the humour and some of the concepts which later became a major part of the discworld series as well as parodies of everyday.
They wander quite a bit and have a number of battles and meet another group of peopl the carpet people is the first story terry pratchett published and he was only seventeen years old.
The origins of fray are never explained in the book but it is described in a way to suggest sweeping or vacuuming.
The origins of fray are never explained in the book but it is described in a way to suggest sweeping or vacuuming and is referred to as sweeping on the back cover of the current uk edition.
Somebody s hoovering the carpet.
The most common explanation is the passage of a human foot that s one that never occured to me.
That s the old story everyone knows and loves.
Or possibly a human stepping across the carpet.
The carpet people is the story of a group of tiny people live in the carpet and who have had their village destroyed by the mysterious natural force of fray also known as sweeping.
But now the carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and there s a new story in the making.
The carpet people is a comic fantasy novel by british writer terry pratchett.
For homes with children or pets you may even consider having the carpeting cleaned more often perhaps every 6 months.
Most carpeting is held together on the underside with glue and a rough textured crosshatch mesh.
First published in 1971 it was later re written by the author when his work became more widespread and well known.
It is that very same friction and grinding that causes your precious carpet fibers to fray and separate.
The munrungs cross the carpet to find a new home after their village is destroyed by the powerful and mysterious natural force fray.
The story of power hungry mouls and of two munrung brothers who set out on an amazing adventure.
Over time this fraying can worsen eventually causing the carpet fibers on top to fray as well.
We recommend having your carpets professionally cleaned at least once a year.