• Frieze carpet is made by knotting the pile through a stiff, resilient backing and then shearing it to ensure that it is all the same length.   • Frieze is a highly twisted cut pile carpet suited for high traffic, informal areas. It has short fibers that tend to curl in different directions at the surface to hide footprints and vacuum marks.   • Because the fibers are bent and twisted to begin with, when they are crushed by feet and other objects, they do not acquire a flattened, dull look like some other carpets do.