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The Kashmere Collection

The Kashmere Collection: Boasting unique patterns and colorations, Kashmere exemplifies lasting quality and ease of cleaning, hallmarks of Karastan's reputation for luxurious carpets and gorgeous living spaces.

Rustic Revival

Rustic Revival will rejuvenate any décor with a new look. A tonal assortment that incorporates four yarns creates a great visual in any room. The 16-color palette is natural and compelling. Its soft comfort and easy care are irresistible.

Which Carpet is Best for Pets?

Everyone knows carpet feels great underfoot—whether you have two feet or four!—Shaw has developed some carpet benefits you’ll love, and so will your furrier family members. They add up to a healthy, sweet-smelling home for you and your pet.

Tarkett Composition Tile

Composition tiles provide economic value and a multitude of patterns and quality options to optimize performance across a number of high traffic installation areas. From the original vinyl composition tile (VCT), to vinyl enhanced tile (VET) and solid vinyl tile (SVT), composite tiles are budget friendly and withstand heavy foot and rolling traffic.

Wool Carpets: The Best Carpets for Allergies

If you’re one of the nearly 30% of adults or 40% of children in the U.S. who lives with allergies, you don’t need a doctor telling you how the war against allergens is an everyday, uphill battle. Allergens are everywhere around the house – embedded in fabric, airborne in dust and lying in wait on hard surfaces.

Anthem celebrates the beauty of the great American hardwoods

Anybody up for a road trip? If not, then check out our Anthem Plus laminate. Anthem celebrates the beauty of the great American hardwoods but in a much more affordable laminate option. This laminate features embossed in register texture which means what you see is what you feel. So save some gas and time and explore some of the greatest hardwood looks both sides of the Mississippi!

Shaw Floors is honored to be a national sponsor of the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway

Shaw Floors is honored to be a national sponsor of the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway. In the coming days, as construction nears completion in more than 40 markets across the U.S., partners & local supporters will gather for "floor signing" events, to permanently attach a blessing or special message to these homes which will raise millions of dollars for the care and life-saving research that happens at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Fifth Avenue oak hardwood flooring

Want to be bold? This chevron stripe installation of Fifth Avenue oak hardwood flooring gives any space an eye-catching focal point. Case in point: the Newport Cottages space at the High Point Market | The World's Home for Home Furnishings, which was styled by Madcap Cottage. Fifth Avenue comes standard in herringbone planks, making it easier to replicate this chevron installation in your home! #DIY

Repel technology offers impressive protection!

Water can wreak havoc on hard surface flooring, but Repel technology offers impressive protection! Watch and see what fizzes and what doesn't. Explore beautiful hardwood flooring featuring Repel

Tarkett completes the acquisition of Lexmark, reinforcing its presence in the North America hospitality segment

PARIS, FRANCE, October 1st, 2018 – Tarkett, a global leader in flooring and sports surface solutions, announced today it has completed the acquisition of Lexmark Carpet Mills. Paul Cleary, CEO of Lexmark, will join Tarkett as President of the Hospitality business for North America.

Breathe easier with carpet

It's a common misconception that carpet can adversely impact allergy and asthma sufferers. Recently, Shaw Industries commissioned a series of scientific studies that indicate that effectively cleaned carpet can reduce airborne allergens, making it a viable choice for families impacted by allergies and asthma.

Why Carpet?

Softness, comfort, texture, color...there are countless reasons to love carpet.

Think about that moment when you first step out of bed each morning. That welcoming touch of warmth is a perfect start to your day.

Resilient Vinyl Floors Reinvented

When you hear the phrase vinyl flooring, you may think of the old vinyl flooring from your youth. While that may stir some happy memories, it may not quite be the design look you were going for. Well, vinyl floors have been reinvented and you’ll be amazed at the new stylish options! Today’s vinyl flooring options are more versatile, more stylish, more durable and will complement any design style that you may dream of using.

Why Choose Resilient Vinyl Flooring?

Resilient vinyl flooring is perhaps the most popular choice of flooring for today’s consumer. This product can be installed almost anywhere in your home, meaning you can have the wood look in areas where wood is not recommended, such as the bathroom or laundry room. This flooring is also very easy to clean and for the DIY person, it is easy to install.

Joyful Heart Foundation rolls out Karastan red carpet for star-studded fundraising event

Karastan’s luxurious red carpet set the stage for one of New York’s most glamorous and meaningful fundraising events.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West Gets a Face-lift

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright believed every element of the space he was creating should work together—from floor plan to fabric to furniture to floor covering.

Karastan Revitalizes 70-Year-Old Beauty in Heritage Kirman Crimson

DALTON, GA, January 19, 2011— Karastan’s Heritage Kirman Crimson is based on a classic rug that Karastan originally introduced in 1941. This timeless beauty brings back the signature style of the textiles of Persia with curvilinear medallions and graceful floral designs, rich color, the intricate use of multiple borders and a field thickly strewn with blooms and arabesques.

Shaw, HGTV team up for co-branded flooring line - Licensing partnership extends an already strong relationship

DALTON—For the last three years, four if you count 2011, Shaw Industries and HGTV have had an ever-building partnership as the manufacturer has been the exclusive flooring provider for the HGTV Green Home giveaway.

Karastan first to receive new wool certification

DALTON—Karastan has become the first company to carry the Wool: Clean Air Certified label on all of its wool carpets and rugs (FCNews, Dec. 6/13, 2010).

Karastan Uses Facebook for its Home for the Holidays Promotion

Kelly Wright Barrere, of Cartersville, GA, won a new rug from Karastan’s Iconoclast Collection as part of a Facebook promotion called “Home for the Holidays.” Karastan invited its hundreds of Facebook followers to click or comment on their favorite Iconoclast rug during the month of December.

Karastan Featured in 4th Annual Hearst Magazines ‘Designer Visions: Cinema Style’

DALTON, GA, December 2, 2010—Karastan rugs were in the supporting cast of Hearst Magazines’ fourth annual Designer Visions program. Following the theme of “Cinema Style,” interior designers created stylized homes inspired by classic films set in New York City. Three residences on the 58th floor of the Setai Fifth Avenue Residences were transformed:

Karastan Supports 2010 Joyful Heart Gala

Everyone wore jeans at the 2010 Joyful Heart Gala, which was held May 5 in New York at Skylight, the expansive SoHo event space.

Easy Care and Fresh Colors Abound in Karastan’s 2010 Tufted Introductions

DALTON, GA, February 19, 2010—Karastan’s new tufted introductions bring gardens indoors, create oases of calm and color and infuse classic designs with contemporary spirit. They all emphasize fresh, easy-to-live-with palettes and easy care—the perfect combination for the busy family.