Most cloth made for carom billiard tables is a type of baize that is typically dyed green, and is made from 100% worsted wool with no nap, which provides a very fast surface allowing the balls to travel with little resistance across the table bed. The billiard table used for carom billiards is a pocketless version, and is typically 3.0 by 1.5 metres (10 ft × 5 ft). In modern French, the word carambolage means 'successive collision', currently used mainly in reference to carom or cannon shots in billiards, and to multiple-vehicle car crashes. But this may simply be folk etymology, as the fruit bears no resemblance to a billiard ball, and there is no direct evidence for such a derivation. Some etymologists have suggested that carambola, in turn, was derived from a yellow-to-orange, tropical Asian fruit also known in Portuguese as a carambola (which was a corruption of the original name of the fruit, karambal in the Marathi language of India), also known as star fruit. It has been pegged variously as a shortening of the Spanish and Portuguese word carambola, or the French word carambole, which are used to describe the red object ball. The word carom, which simply means any strike and rebound, was in use in reference to billiards by at least 1779, sometimes spelled "carrom". The Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB) is the highest international governing body of competitive carom billiards. It is also popular in Asian countries, including Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Vietnam, but is now considered obscure in North America, having been supplanted by pool in popularity. Ĭarom billiards is popular in Europe, particularly France, where it originated. Some of the more prevalent today and historically are (chronologically by apparent date of development): straight rail, one-cushion, balkline, three-cushion and artistic billiards. There is a large array of carom billiards disciplines. The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th-century France. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball on a single shot. 1776, featuring billiards among other parlour activitiesĬarom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. Our tables are chosen by property owners, businesses, interior designers, and professional pool players around the world.The Family Remy by Januarius Zick, c. And they remain the best-selling convertible dining pool table brand in Europe. They have been chosen as official game tables of international billiards tournaments. Our billiard tables have won multiple international design awards. We also offer an array of furniture, lighting, and accessories, as well as table options for the Russian Pyramid, carom, snooker, pool, poker, and table tennis. Their careful construction consists of an assemblage of solid wood, metal, slate, and professional cloth. Our convertible dining pool tables are constructed to be both stunning dining tables and serious billiard tables. We are constantly striving to remain at the top of our industry. What also sets us apart is that we offer a unique blend of superb quality and variety in our tables, while maintaining the best prices on the market for high-end pool tables. Each new billiard table design is manufactured and lab tested in Lithuania for durability over many months. Since then, we have been the leading innovators of convertible pool table design and construction. Vision Billiards is the American branch of 'Bilijardai', a European pool table manufacturer that has been manufacturing tables in Lithuania, Europe since 1994.
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