• Justas🇱🇹OP
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      Wall rugs are hung for two reasons:

      • Insulation, both for temperature and sound, back when other insulating materials were unavailable.

      • If a rug is particularly expensive, they are hung to prevent them from getting dirty, especially if the owner’s feet get dirty from farmwork.

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      the soviet apartments typically had cinderblock walls with no insulation and drafty mortar gaps. the heating systems were centralized boilers which usually were not operational/operating.