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