Handmade world reveals a wealth of knowledge for it s customers about handmade carpets rugs.
Backing of hand tufted rug.
With hand tufted and machine made rugs a latex coating is applied to the back of the rugs to hold their tufts in place.
Essentially a hand knotted rug could be flipped over and used without any differences.
The high quality of the knots makes a hand knotted rug outlast a hand tufted one.
This backing called a scrim is an easy way to tell if a rug is hand tufted.
After the design is complete a fabric backing is glued onto the back to hold the rug together.
The underside of a hand tufted rug will be covered.
This leaves a yarn loop at the back and the front for each shot.
If the tufted rug is not heavily soiled then a cleaner may opt to surface clean it as best as he can and not mark up the backing but in most cases rugs that come in for cleaning need a good wash.
The more detail on the back of the rug the better the quality.
To produce a hand tufted rug fabric with a stenciled design is stretched on a frame.
Unlike hand knotted rugs for which an experienced weaver might tie about 10 000 knots per day for a very dense pattern hand tufted rugs are created with a tufting gun.
The information video here provides the customer a basic general.
A tufting gun is used to shoot yarn through the fabric while passing by horizontally.
When to choose a hand knotted rug over a hand tufted rug.
A hand knotted or flatweave rug for example would be bare and reversible.
Loops of wool are pushed through a backing that has been imprinted with the overall design.
Hand knotted rugs have superior value because they are original not mass produced.
The tufts of a hand tufted rug tend to loosen up and come out over time.
Hand tufted rugs are made using a tufting gun which punches the traced pattern into a canvas.
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And soaking these rugs which gets them the cleanest will change the look of the backing material.
A decorative fringe is then added to give the appearance of a hand knotted rug.
Upon completion the back loops are fixed in place with latex and the front loops are opened forming the pile.