Patent ID: 6905751

Claim:
A covering for a floor, wall or ceiling surface, comprising: a tile having first and second discrete tile sections and having an exposed surface; said first section having a primary backing in part exposed on one side of the tile for forming a first discrete exposed surface portion of the first section; a plurality of yarns tufted into said primary backing along a remaining part of said first section forming cut or loop yarns on a back side of said primary backing leaving a plurality of backstitches of the tufted yarns along and forming a second discrete exposed surface portion of said first section; a resin fixing said cut or loop pile tufted yarns along the back side of said primary backing; said primary backing and said backstitches exposed along said first and second surface portions, respectively, of said first section having aesthetic characteristics distinguished from one another; and said second section of said tile being formed of one of a woven fabric, a non-woven fabric and a tufted pile, having loops or cut loops, and forming a remaining portion of the exposed surface of said tile.