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Income Taxes - Deferred Income Taxes - Valuation Allowance - Narrative (Detail) - USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2016	May. 03, 2015	Feb. 01, 2015
U.S. Tax Authorities and Poland Tax Authorities [Member] | Valuation Allowance, Operating Loss Carryforwards [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	$ 874,000	$ 922,000	$ 1,000,000
U.S. State Tax [Member] | Valuation Allowance, Operating Loss Carryforwards [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	498,000	561,000	596,000
Poland [Member] | Valuation Allowance, Operating Loss Carryforwards [Member] | Culp Europe [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	376,000	361,000	400,000
Canada and China [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0

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Income Taxes [Line Items]

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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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