Loops of wool are pushed through a backing that has been imprinted with the overall design.
Backing of hand tufted rug.
The information video here provides the customer a basic general.
And soaking these rugs which gets them the cleanest will change the look of the backing material.
Hand tufted rugs are made using a tufting gun which punches the traced pattern into a canvas.
The underside of a hand tufted rug will be covered.
Upon completion the back loops are fixed in place with latex and the front loops are opened forming the pile.
The tufts of a hand tufted rug tend to loosen up and come out over time.
The high quality of the knots makes a hand knotted rug outlast a hand tufted one.
With hand tufted and machine made rugs a latex coating is applied to the back of the rugs to hold their tufts in place.
A hand knotted or flatweave rug for example would be bare and reversible.
This leaves a yarn loop at the back and the front for each shot.
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.
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Hand knotted rugs have superior value because they are original not mass produced.
To produce a hand tufted rug fabric with a stenciled design is stretched on a frame.
With the scrim holding the yarn safely in place the rug s exposed loops are shaved down.
Hand knotted rugs do not have any type of backing to them.
A decorative fringe is then added to give the appearance of a hand knotted rug.
The more detail on the back of the rug the better the quality.
A hand tufted rug is a practice using a small tufting gun to punch a design into a canvas the tufting gun is held by the hand of a technician who loads yarn into a magazine and traces a pattern onto a canvas backing.
This backing called a scrim is an easy way to tell if a rug is hand tufted.
Essentially a hand knotted rug could be flipped over and used without any differences.
When to choose a hand knotted rug over a hand tufted rug.