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A carpet beater or mattenklopper (from Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
) is a tool
Tool

A broad definition of a tool is an entity used to interface between two or more domains that facilitates more effective action of one domain upon the other....
 used to clean carpet
Carpet

A carpet is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering. The term was also used for table and wall coverings, as carpets were not commonly used on the floor in European interiors until the 18th century....
s and rug
Rug

A rug can be:* a floor covering produced by rug making* a carpet command-line interface to the ZENworks Linux Management agent, which uses Red Carpet for Linux Management...
s by hanging them up and beating them. It is usually made of willow
Willow

Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere....
 switch
Switch (rod)

A switch is a flexible rod, typically used for physical punishment of the birching type, called switching after it, especially when using a single branch: multiple branches are rather called a rod, a less flexible single rod is rather called a caning, an inflexible one a stick; a paddle is broader but hard and flattened....
es woven together in a knot similar to a flattened Turk's head
Turk's head knot

A Turk's head knot is a decorative knot with a variable number of interwoven strands, forming a closed loop. The name is used to describe the general family of all such knots rather than one individual knot....
. The number of strands determines the rigidity of the mattenklopper.






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Mattenklopper
A carpet beater or mattenklopper (from Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
) is a tool
Tool

A broad definition of a tool is an entity used to interface between two or more domains that facilitates more effective action of one domain upon the other....
 used to clean carpet
Carpet

A carpet is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering. The term was also used for table and wall coverings, as carpets were not commonly used on the floor in European interiors until the 18th century....
s and rug
Rug

A rug can be:* a floor covering produced by rug making* a carpet command-line interface to the ZENworks Linux Management agent, which uses Red Carpet for Linux Management...
s by hanging them up and beating them. It is usually made of willow
Willow

Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere....
 switch
Switch (rod)

A switch is a flexible rod, typically used for physical punishment of the birching type, called switching after it, especially when using a single branch: multiple branches are rather called a rod, a less flexible single rod is rather called a caning, an inflexible one a stick; a paddle is broader but hard and flattened....
es woven together in a knot similar to a flattened Turk's head
Turk's head knot

A Turk's head knot is a decorative knot with a variable number of interwoven strands, forming a closed loop. The name is used to describe the general family of all such knots rather than one individual knot....
. The number of strands determines the rigidity of the mattenklopper. A two-strand mattenklopper like the one shown here would be more flexible than a three- or four-strand mattenklopper. Modern mass-production version can also be in plastic or wire.

Its use in cleaning has been largely replaced by the carpet sweeper
Carpet sweeper

A carpet sweeper or Ewbank in British-English is a mechanical device for the cleaning of carpets in place. They were popular before the vacuum cleaner and have been largely superseded by them....
 and then the vacuum cleaner
Vacuum cleaner

A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors.Most homes with carpeted floors in developed countries possess a vacuum cleaner for cleaning....
, but it is still sold in household stores.

It is used in the James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 Casino Royale
Casino Royale (novel)

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming is the first James Bond novel. It would eventually pave the way for eleven other novels by Fleming himself in addition to two short story anthology, followed by many 'continuation' Bond novels by other authors....
 as a torture device. In the 2006 film of the same name
Casino Royale (2006 film)

Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond James Bond ; it is directed by Martin Campbell and the first to star Daniel Craig as Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
, a knotted rope is used. In either case, Bond's enemy, Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre

Le Chiffre is the alias of a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale . On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the Casino Royale of the novel for CBS's Climax! television series, by Orson Welles in the Casino Royale of the novel and Bond film series, and by Mads...
, uses the instrument in an attempt to force information out of Bond by striking him repeatedly in the testicle
Testicle

The testicle is the male gonad in animals. This article will concentrate on mammalian testicles unless otherwise noted.The etymology of the word is somewhat colorfully based on Roman law....
s.