No clue where this is from though.
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Hell no, anything porous on the floor is a no-go.
But astroturf isn't porous, just plastic grass that let's water through.
I'm thinking it should be even rougher if you so want one.
Bathroom carpets are pretty common, sort of soft but still plastic. Foamy, but also with lots of holes, easy to wash.
But line yeah idk it might be kinda cool to have a sauna that's different from the traditional.
There's plenty of options to make non-traditional sauna without creating a room-sized petri-dish. Anything fabric-like isn't a part of the process.
And there's also examples on why traditional way to build sauna is the way it is. There's at least urban rumour about some cruise ship where some oil-prince had decided that artesanal wooden benches weren't fancy enough and insisted that they're replaced with copper plates bent in shape. They found out why people prefer wood in sauna pretty quickly.
I've heard this story in a form where it was war repatations to the soviet union. They specified copper not because they don't understand saunas, but so they could scrap it.