Carpet Weave & Product Term Card Assignment

1. AssignmentConstruct 5
Product cards
• Rug
• Carpet Types

2. TUFTED FABRICS / PILE WOVEN CARPET
• Examples include:
– carpet, candlewick bedspreads, hooked rugs
• Pile Use: 95% of all carpeting is tufted or looped, cut or
uncut pile
• Characteristics: fast process & less expensive
• Loop carpet has a heavy backing applied w latex
adhesive to secure tufts.

3. Kilim, Wilton, Axminster, Brussels, Tapestry Rugs

4. Floorcovering
Bigelow Floorcovering Ca. 1960 Guide Excerpted By JH pp. 8-24
Chapter II, Hints, Tricks And Secrets Of Home Decorating
Possibly written by Helen Daggett, Consulting Decorator
• Your greatest "furnishing power" lies in your floorcovering,
because the floor is the largest unbroken expanse to be
decorated. If you haven't realized how important it is in your
room scheme, just remember how bare and forlorn your room
looks when you take up your rug to. be cleaned.

5. Carpet Density & Performance
CRI Carpet And Rug Institute
Carpet performance is associated, in part, with pile yarn
density, the amount of pile yarn in a given volume of carpet
face. For a given carpet weight, lower pile height and
higher pile yarn density will give the most performance for
the money.
Density is also influenced by the number of tufts per inch
when counting across a width of carpet, e.g., a 1/8 gauge
carpet has eight tuft rows per inch of width and a 1/10
gauge carpet has ten rows per inch of width; and the size
of the yarn in the tufts. Extra heavy traffic conditions require
a density of 5000 or more.

6. Wall to wall Carpet
When & WHY it all
started,… a carpet
manufacturer claims
• Wall-to-wall carpet
makes furniture
• arrangement easier and
• absorbs the noise in the
room. (Try Lg Rug )

7. Cut Pile / Tufted Carpet
CRI Carpet And Rug Institute
Tufted carpet is produced on machines similar to sewing machines. Several hundred
needles stitch hundreds of rows of pile yarn tufts through a backing fabric called the
primary backing. The yarn is caught by loopers and held in place for loop-pile carpet or
cut by blades for cut-pile carpet. Next, a secondary backing, usually polypropylene, is
laminated with latex to the carpet. Other alternatives are attached cushion backings that
will add resilience, acoustical insulation, and comfort underfoot. "Tufted patterns are now
very elaborate and durable. Patterns that were once only achieved through weaving or
printing are now achieved through advanced tufting technology, " says Bob Kokoszka of
Burtco Enterprises.

8. Student Examples in
Residential Interior Design Project

9. Marriott Downtown

10. Pile Carpet & Rug Terms
Upholstery Weight Pile
• velour,
• velvet,
• plush,
• corduroy,
• velveteen,
• terrycloth,
• Carpet pile
CUT PILE
• Wilton
• Velvet
• Axminster
• Chenille
UNCUT PILE -Loop
• Brussels
• Tapestry

11. Tapestry

12. Velvet Pile

13. Velvet
FIGURED VELVET
A velvet with pattern formed by contrast in cut and uncut loops partially cut pile with plain or figured background.
VELVET
Smooth, short thick warp pile surface -rich in appearance -soft to
touch - frequently woven double, face to face, and cut apart by
shuttle knife as it comes off the loom -origin: Latin vellus -a
fleece.

14. Room flooring choices
•
Decorators say, the charm of a
room really begins with the floor,
and as the floor is such a
permanent factor in a room, your
floorcovering must be the "key" to
the character of the entire room.
Decide what kind of rug or carpet
you will have, and then develop
your decorative scheme from that
foundation. Bigelow
•

15. Rug Card Assignment
• Make 5 cards
• With photo
• And 2 definitions

16. Assignment 2- PILE / RIB – Uncut or Cut Pile
Add the Humphries Sample Pages for Pile then make the cards as a Quiz
Products:
Bed & Bath / Carpet / Wall cover / Rug Terms & carpets
65 corduroy, velvet,
68 velveteen
87 pique , cord
173 frise, frieze, melton
175 Velour
177 fleece
209-213 rib / repp weave
261 taffeta
257 – 58 Suede/ Plush
267 terrycloth, terry/ velour
276 carpet/ manmade
283 plush
287 tufted pile, plush, velvet , frieze
291 velveteen