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Article: Kid Stuff.(children's area rugs)
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- HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
- Article date:
- April 10, 1995
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New York - Creating fun, attractive, even educational juvenile area rugs seems to be child's play these days. Pioneered by Couristan and picked up by several other suppliers, the juvenile sector is one of the faster-growing specialty segments of the exploding area rug industry, proving kids' rugs can play in a grown-up market.
Suppliers, getting ready for the International Home Furnishings Market at the end of the month in High Point, say they expect buyers for mass merchants, catalogs, specialty stores, furniture stores and department stores to snap up juvenile merchandise. Suppliers will tell you they think so because that's what buyers did at Surfaces '95 in Las ...