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Carpet The global carpet market for domestic and industrial end use is dominated by three manufacturing processes: Woven: The carpet is produced on a loom similar to woven cloth and is a cut pile. Normally many coloured yarns are used and this process is capable of producing intricate patterns from pre-determined designs. These carpets are normally the most expensive. Tufted: The carpet is produced on a tufting machine using a single-coloured or sometimes non-coloured yarn. If non-coloured yarn is used the carpet will later be dyed or printed with a design. Tufted carpets can be either cut pile, loop pile or a combination of both. Tufting machines produce many more metres of carpet per hour than weaving does, and tufted carpets are usually low- to medium-priced. Modern tufting technology allows basic geometric patterns to be produced in addition to solid colour. The fibres used to create the patterns are twisted into yarns and then "tufted" into carpet. Because tufting machines work like enormous sewing machines with multiple needles, tufted carpet can be produced quickly. For this reason, most of the carpet manufactured today is tufted rather than woven. A Colour TEC carpet is manufactured on a tufting machine but is capable of producing a design that is close to that of a woven carpet. Colour Tec carpet can have a design up to 20 yards (18m) in length and allows the whole floorscape to be produced rather than small patterns being repeated. Needlef elt: These carpets are more technologically advanced. Needle felts are produced by electrostatic attraction of individual synthetic fibers forming an extremely durable carpet. These carpets are normally found in the contract market such as hotels etc. where there is a lot of traffic. A flat weave carpet is created by interlocking warp (vertical) and weft (horizontal) threads. Types of oriental flat woven carpet include kilim, soumak, plain weave, and tapestry weave. Types of European flat woven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, damask, list, haircloth, and ingrain (aka double cloth, two-ply, triple cloth, or three-ply). A hooked rug is a simple type of rug handmade by pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as burlap. This type of rug is now generally made as a handicraft. On a knotted pile carpet (formally, a supplementary weft cut-loop pile carpet), the structural weft threads alternate with a supplementary weft that rises at right angles to the surface of the weave. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of three knot types to form the pile or nap of the carpet. |
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