List of Carpet Types and Manufacturing Process

Some classifications—Oriental, European handwoven, Brussels, Wilton, velvet, Axminster, chenille, ingrain, rag, hooked, straw, and fiber—embrace the whole range of carpets, either classic and modern day.


Towards the top of the range belong not only the authentic classic Orientals, developed by means of the nineteenth cent. And now comparatively scarce, but in addition the fashionable reproductions. The substances are dyed either with conventional vegetable dyes or current (and less pleasing) aniline dyes and then woven. Many modern day Orientals are cleaned in chlorine treatments to provide an result of age or in glycerine to simulate the luster of fine wool. Mainstream techniques have considerably standardized and debased the attribute primeval ways, but the modern Orientals are still commercially crucial. in addition, some old style Oriental rugs are still made, incorporating the deep, rich color and complicated patterns of Persia, the brighter hues and conventionalized details of Asian Turkey, the simpler designs and ancient colorings of Turkistan and the Caucasus, and the symbolic ornament of China.


A restricted number of European handwoven carpets, both Aubussons (tapestry) and Savonneries (pile), are now manufactured in many Western nations. Up-to-date mainstream carpets are woven on intricate and extremely specialized equipment, a development from Bigelow's power loom. Brussels carpet has a warp and weft of linen, with a pile of worsted yarn drawn  into loops by means of wires. It is certainly referred to as three-, four-, or five-frame, depending on the number of bobbins transporting different-colored warp threads, which make the pattern. Tapestry Brussels is an low-cost single-frame sort, either yarn printed or piece printed.


Wilton is manufactured about the same notion, apart from the fact that loops that form the pile are cut as they are woven into position. Velvet is an equal of tapestry Brussels with the pile cut. Axminster, comparable as a result to Oriental, utilizes infinite colors in design created on machines that loop the tufts, one color at a time, and then interlock the weft about them. Chenille, or chenille Axminster, is made in two stages. First and foremost the chenille thread, or fur, as it is called, is made, then it is folded and ironed so that the woolen fibers are like a fringe along a cotton or linen chain. This fur is then woven into a strong backing of linen with the nap on the surface.


Ingrain, not anymore widely used, is a plain-weave fabric, of two- or three-ply woolen weft on a hidden cotton warp. Rag carpets, made of utilised rags sewn collectively for warp, were first woven on home looms; they has become commercially essential in the latter part of the 19th cent. Hooked rugs are made of narrow strips of woolen cloth drawn by a pointed hook through a canvas base on which a design is indicated.