Specification

Tufted: Tufting is the process of creating textiles, especially carpet, on specialized multi-
needle sewing machines. Several hundred needles stitch hundreds of rows of pile yarn
tufts through a backing fabric called the primary backing. The needles push yarn through
a primary backing fabric, where a loop holds the yarn in place to form a tuft as the needle
is removed. The yarn is caught by loopers and held in place for loop-pile carpet or cut by
blades for cut-pile carpet. Next, secondary backings of various types are applied to
render a variety of performance properties.
Here are some key steps in the tufting process:
 Yarn comes from cones on creel racks (or from big spools called beams) into the
machine.
 The primary backing feeds into the machine.
 Yarn and primary backing come together in the machine (full shot of machine)
 Yarn is fed through needles on a needlebar of a tufting machine. Needles
repeatedly penetrate or tuft into the primary backing.
 The tufted carpet is mended and inspected.
 Carpet is rolled onto large rolls for the next step (whether it’s to be dyed or to be
backed.)
Woven: Woven carpet is created on looms by simultaneously interlacing face yarns and
backing yarns into a complete product, thereby eliminating the need for a secondary
backing. A small amount of latex-back coating is usually applied for bulk. Principal
variations of woven carpet include velvet, Wilton and Axminster.