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Rooms in private dwellings, in the Tahari, if rich, usually are floored with costly rugs. - (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter 10, Sentence #192)

Her haunches flowed beneath the silk, and then she had disappeared. I did not think it would take her long to remove her clothing, draw her warm kaiila-cloth blanket about her and, drawing her knees up, fall asleep on the straw of her cell, which, under pain of death, she would shut behind her, locking it. When she had left the room she had used the runner at the side of the room. Rooms in private dwellings, in the Tahari, if rich, usually are floored with costly rugs. The rooms are seldom crossed directly, in order to prevent undue wear on the rugs; long strips of ruglike material line the edges of the room; these are commonly used in moving from room to room; children, servants, slaves, women, commonly negotiate the rooms by keeping on the runners, near the walls. Men commonly do also, if guests are not present. "The breaking of a well," said the merchant, "is an almost inconceivable criminal act". - (Tribesmen of Gor)