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Income Taxes - Deferred Income Taxes - Valuation Allowance - Narrative (Detail) (USD $)	Aug. 03, 2014	Apr. 27, 2014	Jul. 28, 2013
U.S. Tax Authorities and Poland Tax Authorities [Member] | Deferred Tax Asset Loss Carryforwards [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	$ 1,100,000	$ 977,000	$ 1,100,000
U.S. State Tax [Member] | Deferred Tax Asset Loss Carryforwards [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	666,000	666,000	722,000
Poland [Member] | Deferred Tax Asset Loss Carryforwards [Member] | Culp Europe [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	419,000	311,000	328,000
Canada and China [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0

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- Definition

Amount of deferred tax assets for which it is more likely than not that a tax benefit will not be realized.

+ References

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 740

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (c)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6907707&loc=d3e32537-109319

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