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Title: Carpet Construction


1
Carpet Construction Styles
  • Is this a Saxony or a plush?

2
Why It matters
  • Build Customers trust and confidence in you,
    your company and your ability to provide the
    proper service
  • Understand and answer their questions and
    concerns
  • Carpets selected for appearance or durability
    will respond differently to cleaning processes

3
Woven Carpet
Symmetrical knots also called Turkish or
Ghiordes knot
  • Weaving practiced for millenniums
  • Flat weaves warp and weft only
  • Pile yarns
  • Market share 1

Asymmetrical, Persian or Senneh knot
Axminster weave
4
Woven Carpet
5
Woven Carpet Flat Weave
6
Woven Carpet - Velvet
  • V weave
  • W weave
  • Loop or floating

This and other photos used by permission of
Vermont Custom Rug Company
7
Woven Carpet - Wilton
8
Woven Carpet - Axminster
Gripper type Axminster loom
9
Tufted Carpet
  • Catherine Evans Whitener Developer
  • Bedspread Alley Northwest GA Chenille
    bedspread production
  • Automated equipment Faster production rates
  • Broadloom Usually 12 or 15
    width but can refer to anything over 27 wide
  • 92 market share

10
Tufted Carpet
  • Gauge
  • Spacing between needles
  • Pitch
  • Lengthwise distance between tufts
  • Density
  • How closely packed is the yarn considering gauge,
    pitch and diameter (denier) of fibers

11
Tufted Carpet - Styles
  • Level loop
  • Cut Loop
  • Patterns Created by variations in pile height or
    which fibers are cut and which are loops
  • Berbers Large loops, little or no twist to the
    yarns, often flecked with bright colors

12
Tufted carpet Styles part 2
  • Level Loop
  • Frieze
  • Saxony
  • Plush
  • California Shag

13
Fusion Bonded Carpet
  • Adhesive on solid backing
  • Face-to-face construction
  • Very durable for cost of raw materials
  • Limited variety of style
  • Carpet tiles
  • Increasing popularity

14
Needle Punched Carpet
  • Construction process
  • 1 style
  • Formed backing
  • Matting
  • Carpet tiles
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