Carpet Construction & Styles

Is this a Saxony or a plush?

Why It matters

Build Customer’s trust and confidence in you, your company and your ability to provide the proper service

Understand and answer their questions and concerns

Carpets selected for appearance or durability will respond differently to cleaning processes

Woven Carpet

Weaving practiced for millenniums

Flat weaves – warp and weft only

Pile yarns

Market share 1% Axminster weave

Symmetrical knots; also called Turkish or Ghiordes knot

Asymmetrical, Persian or Senneh knot

Woven Carpet

Woven Carpet – Flat Weave

Woven Carpet - Velvet

•V weave

•W weave

•Loop or floating

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Woven Carpet - Wilton

Woven Carpet - Axminster

Gripper type Axminster loom

Tufted Carpet

Catherine Evans Whitener Developer

Bedspread Alley Northwest GA Chenille bedspread production

Automated equipment Faster production rates

Broadloom Usually 12” or 15” width but can refer to anything over 27” wide

92% market share

Tufted Carpet

Gauge Spacing between needles

Pitch Lengthwise distance between

tufts

Density How closely packed is the yarn

considering gauge, pitch and diameter (denier) of fibers

Tufted Carpet - Styles

Level loop

Cut & Loop

Patterns Created by

variations in pile height or which fibers are cut and which are loops

Berbers Large loops,

little or no twist to the yarns, often flecked with bright colors

Tufted carpet – Styles part 2

Level Loop

Frieze

Saxony

Plush

California Shag

Fusion Bonded Carpet

Adhesive on solid backing Face-to-face construction Very durable for cost of raw materials Limited variety of style Carpet tiles Increasing popularity

Needle Punched Carpet

Construction process

1 style

Formed backing

Matting

Carpet tiles