Carpet Runners
Black Carpet Runner Rentals
The runner for events that want a defined route and no ceremony about it. Rent black where the branding at the end of the walk is what people are supposed to be looking at.
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Specifications
The colour that lets everything else be the subject.
Black is what an event uses when the floor should not compete. On a street it reads as production rather than as celebration, which is exactly right for a launch, a fashion presentation or a shoot; in a dark room it disappears into the floor and leaves the lit things lit. It is also the practical choice for a pavement run, where a pale carpet shows every wet footprint that comes off the road.
| Colour | Black |
|---|---|
| Widths | 4 ft and 6 ft |
| Length | A wide range of ready-cut lengths held in stock, with a cut to your own figure available for an extra charge |
| Pile | Polyester |
| Backing | Woven polypropylene |
| Edge | Merrowed |
| Thickness | 10 mm |
| Fixing | Professional double-sided tape onto concrete, asphalt or a hard floor; comes up clean afterwards |
In action
Black across a pavement, door to kerb.
What it is good at
Six places black is the working choice.
Street-front launches
Taped straight onto the pavement outside a shopfront, turning a stretch of public footpath into part of the event for one evening.
Dark rooms and clubs
Where the floor is already dark and the run is there to organise movement rather than to be seen. The route reads under low light without a colour cutting across it.
Trade shows and exhibitions
A stand floor that ties a footprint together across a hall of grey carpet tiles, laid to the edge of the space you have paid for.
Conferences and AV builds
Down the side of a stage or across a cable route, where the carpet also settles the argument about where crew walk during a session.
Photo and film work
A neutral floor that reflects nothing back into a lens, on a set where a red one would put a cast on everything above the ankles.
Loading and back-of-house routes
The unglamorous run between a service door and a room, where the point is protecting a venue floor and keeping the route obvious to people carrying things.
The usual add-on
Chrome posts for a street run.
A black run outdoors is usually edged in polished chrome — cool metal against a dark floor, legible from the far side of a road, which is where the people you are directing actually stand. Belt posts do the same job where the route has to hold a queue before the doors open.
See the chrome rope posts