Hand-made V/s Machine-made carpets

Carpet is a textile floor covering that is fixed to the floor surface and extends wall to wall. Such a textile floor covering is manufactured in two ways: hand-made or machine-made.
One of the most prominent differences between hand-made and machine-made carpets is that the former holds a valuable impression. The other main difference between these two types of

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Process of Manufacture Machine Made Carpet

Machine-made carpets are tufted, woven, knitted, flocked or needle-punched. Most commonly tufting is used for machine-made carpets. Tufted carpets are made on machines where the yarn is stitched through a pre-constructed backing to form a loop or a tuft. To hold the loops in place, the back side of the carpet is coated with latex.
Tufting is the most inexpensive and fastest ways to manufacture a rug. Weavers can also control the tuft size making it possible to create carpets with varying patterns or surface textures.
There are three kinds of woven carpets: Velvet, Wilton and Axminster. Velvet is

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Tufted Woolen Carpet

Tufted carpets have made the carpets affordable to common man's pocket. Furthermore apart from the handmade tufted carpets the process has been fully mechanized successfully. Tufted carpets have created affability in color, design and texture. Uneven scapes can becreated with ease. Tufted carpet is produced 15 times faster than woven carpet.

Technique
The tufted woolen carpets are made using special needles called the tufting guns. They may be hand tufted or machine tufted. A good quality

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Hand Tufted Carpet

Tufted carpets offer the same versatility in terms of color, pattern and texture as the knotted carpets. They are the ones that can be easily mistaken for the oriental rugs. They are a type of piled carpets that do not involve any knotting but simple tufting of the pile. They are much more economical than the traditional knotted rugs.

Material
The base material in the tufted rugs are pre woven cloth, usually canvas that provides a strong base. In the contemporary times jute base is also frequently used. Pile can be silk, wool or any of the synthetic yarns. They are pre dyed into the required colors. Apart

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