Alphabet Tiles Kids Washable Rug

Alphabet Tiles is letter tiles scattered across a warm ground for first spelling games, printed edge to edge on a play rug a child can actually use: sit on it, drive toy cars over it, learn from it. The drawing does the decorating and the teaching at once, so these end up in classrooms and daycares about as often as bedrooms.

The line runs 7 cuts, rectangles, from a 3x5 at $39.99 up to a 9x12 at $199.99. In practice: a quarter inch of pile means doors sweep over it and a robot vacuum treats it as floor; non-slip rubber underneath holds it to wood and tile without tape; when vacuuming stops being enough, the whole rug goes into a washing machine.

• DesignAlphabet Tiles
• CollectionKids
• Cuts7 (rectangles)
• PileLow pile, about 0.25 in
• BackingNon-slip rubber
• CareMachine washable; see the wash guide
• Pricesfrom $39.99

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