Scope: Clothing Racks, Drying Racks & Valets — freestanding/rolling garment racks for hanging clothes (storage, retail display, moving), laundry drying racks (standing accordion/A-frame, wall-mount, over-door, retractable reel, tabletop), and valet/butler stands for one day's outfit. Excludes dish-drying racks (sibling leaf `dish-racks`), closet rods/hangers (sibling `hangers`), ironing boards/presses (sibling `ironing-board-presses`), and built-in wardrobe systems.

Seed:
1. Weave-equivalent: frame/mechanism, not finish — Z-rack vs single-bar vs wall-mount-fold vs swing-out valet bar is the spec that changes performance; chrome/wood finish is the marketing layer, like thread count.
2. Sommelier would notice process/origin first: a "valet stand" is a stand-in for an actual household valet's job (per Wikipedia), and a commercial Z-rack's tube gauge, not its chrome plating, is what separates a $30 bedroom rack from a $450-rated stockroom rack.

Sources:
[wikipedia_clothes_horse] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_horse — drying rack forms (standing, folding, wall-mounted, overhead pulley) — fetched excerpt
[wikipedia_clothes_valet] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_valet — valet features (trouser/jacket hangers, shoe bar, tray, jewelry box), valet rod and electric variants — fetched excerpt
[honeycando_garment_racks] https://www.honeycando.com/collections/garment-racks/products/heavy-duty-double-hanging-garment-rack — double bar, 30lb capacity, locking casters — fetched excerpt (via WebFetch)
[honeycando_zframe_rack] https://www.honeycando.com/collections/garment-racks/products/z-frame-double-bar-rolling-garment-rack — 40lb/bar, Z-frame, locking casters — fetched excerpt (via WebFetch)
[onlygarmentracks_zrack] https://www.onlygarmentracks.com/rolling-garment-racks/32-heavy-duty-nesting-z-rack-black-base.html — 450lb commercial Z-rack, chrome uprights, nesting — fetched excerpt (via WebFetch)
[onlygarmentracks_doublerail_category] https://www.onlygarmentracks.com/17-double-rail-garment-racks — 1-1/4in extension hangrail, wire basket topper — fetched excerpt (via WebFetch)
[honeycando_drying_racks] https://www.honeycando.com/collections/drying — A-frame 40lb, gullwing/accordion tiers, wall-mount 80ft/140ft — fetched excerpt (via WebFetch)
[target_wallmount_drying] https://www.target.com/s/wall+mount+drying+rack — Brightroom 10lb wall rack, SONGMICS 5 bars, LEDREM 6 rods, Leifheit Telefix retractable — fetched excerpt (via WebFetch)
[honeycando_corner_rack] https://www.honeycando.com/products/freestanding-corner-clothing-garment-rack-black-dark-gray — "Designed for a corner use to maximize the space in your room" — fetched excerpt (curl)
[onlygarmentracks_round_rack] https://www.onlygarmentracks.com/satin-chrome-garment-racks/118-satin-chrome-round-rack.html — '36" Diameter Round Folding Rack... welded construction allows for heavy loads' — fetched excerpt (curl)

Branches:
- rack_type=garment_rack → frame_style, hang_bar_configuration, casters_and_locking, add_on_capacity, finish_and_rust_resistance (supported: honeycando + onlygarmentracks product specs are garment-rack-only)
- rack_type=drying_rack → drying_rack_form, drying_capacity, drying_rack_material, foldability_and_storage, mount_method (supported: honeycando_drying_racks + target_wallmount_drying)
- rack_type=valet_stand → valet_trouser_bar_type, valet_jacket_support, valet_features_bundle, valet_material, valet_footprint_type (supported: wikipedia_clothes_valet's feature list and valet-rod variant)

Noise (spec-sheet rows seen, not made facets):
- Price/brand/rating on every listing — excluded per rule (never facets).
- Exact tube diameter in inches (onlygarmentracks: 1-1/4in hangrail) — only one concrete figure found, folded into qualitative `duty_level` instead of a standalone numeric facet to avoid an under-sourced range.
- Linear feet of drying line (honeycando: 80ft/140ft wall racks) — single-site figures; used `drying_capacity` (bar/tier count, 2-sourced) instead of asserting an under-sourced footage range.
- Garment rack cover color/pattern (navy/white nylon cover) — cosmetic, not an expert spec.
- Z-rack "nesting" stacking for empty storage — folded into `garment_rack_frame_style` value rather than a separate facet.

Research limits this run: valet stand retail spec pages (Wayfair, Overstock, DutchCrafters, Winsome, Proman, Hangerworld, Home Depot, IKEA) returned 403/404/429 or no spec content; thespruce.com buying guides returned 402; archive.org Wayback API rate-limited (429) throughout. Valet facets rely on wikipedia_clothes_valet alone — flagged low-confidence in judgements rather than invented.

Corrections (2026-10-26):
- Removed `duty_level`'s `heavy_frequent_or_commercial` branch (`then_ask: [garment_rack_frame_style, finish_and_rust_resistance]`), which fired regardless of `rack_type` and contradicted `rack_type`'s own `makes_irrelevant` for drying_rack/valet_stand; both facets are already asked via `rack_type`'s own garment_rack branch, so no replacement branch was needed.
- Added `overhead_ceiling_pulley_airer` to `drying_rack_form` and `ceiling_mounted_pulley` to `mount_method`, citing wikipedia_clothes_horse (already in references, quoted "An overhead airer uses a pulley to raise and lower it for loading"); added that ref to both facets' `evidence`.
- Dropped the uncited "~50 lb" cutoff from `duty_level.backfill_note`; reworded to point at the already 2-sourced 30-40 lb light-duty range (honeycando_garment_racks 30lb, honeycando_zframe_rack 40lb/bar).
- Added new facet `garment_rack_footprint` (compact_footprint / wide_commercial_footprint), sourced to honeycando_garment_racks (32.8"L x 20.8"W, re-fetched this run, confirms dimensions are on the raw page) and onlygarmentracks_zrack (63"L x 23"W); wired into `rack_type`'s branches (then_ask for garment_rack, makes_irrelevant for the other two).
- Added vocabulary entry "Corner/wall-hugger rack" for `garment_rack_frame_style`'s `corner_or_wall_hugger` value, sourced to new ref honeycando_corner_rack ("Designed for a corner use to maximize the space in your room").
- Added vocabulary entry "Round rack" for `garment_rack_frame_style`'s `round_rack` value, sourced to new ref onlygarmentracks_round_rack (36" diameter, welded circular frame for heavy loads); added both new refs to `garment_rack_frame_style`'s `evidence`.
- Reworded `duty_level`'s question/cold_start_question from "Light occasional use, or heavy daily use?" (failed the generic-category test) to "Occasional home use, or loaded daily in a commercial setting?", anchoring on rack-specific home-vs-commercial duty cues.