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Income Taxes - Deferred Income Taxes - Valuation Allowance - Narrative (Detail) - USD ($)	Jan. 29, 2017	May 01, 2016	Jan. 31, 2016
U.S. Tax Authorities and Poland Tax Authorities [Member] | Valuation Allowance, Operating Loss Carryforwards [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	$ 557,000	$ 590,000	$ 874,000
U.S. State Tax [Member] | Valuation Allowance, Operating Loss Carryforwards [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	473,000	518,000	498,000
Poland [Member] | Valuation Allowance, Operating Loss Carryforwards [Member] | Culp Europe [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	84,000	72,000	376,000
Canada and China [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Valuation allowance	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0

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

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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=65882285&loc=d3e32537-109319

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