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 woven fabric is required as a base. The fabric is selected on the basis of required pile density. While hand tufting, each pile is tufted individually. Dyed yarns may be used for tufting at time the tufted carpet is printed.
The base is then coated with latex or some other adhesive on the backside to anchor the tufts. A secondary backing is needed to add dimensional stability and mechanical strength to the carpet. The carpet can be given textured finishes by using pile cutting techniques and patterning techniques. The mechanized tufting is just like sewing machine with many needles.
The process is so versatile that from very intricate to very bold patterns can be created with much more ease than the woven carpets.
Regions
Panipat is main tufted carpets producing center of India. Jaipur,Amritsar and Agra belt have also developed tufted carpets production to cope up with the rising demand.
Hand-made V/s Machine-made carpets
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