Tufting Handmade Carpets: Understand the five key points of tufted carpets at once
Tufting handmade tufted carpets have rapidly become popular in recent years. During the epidemic, a whirlwind blew from Europe to Asia. Even well-known Nordic furniture brands began to launch tufted carpet series. In addition to Healing Wen Qingfeng’s tufted gun DIY course, this article will give you an in-depth understanding of the popular tufted carpet from the perspective of interior design.
Tufting carpet The origin of Tufting handmade carpet
Tufting handmade tufted carpets have a rich history of development. The world’s oldest tufted carpet, the Pazyryk Rug, dates back to the 5th century BC. This carpet was excavated in the Siberian mountains in 1949 after being frozen for 2,500 years. It is currently Collected in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Soviet Union.
▲The world’s oldest tufted carpet, Pazyryk Rug (Photo credit: Matt Camron )
Tufting tufted carpets were all handmade in the early days. In 1895, Catherine Evans, a carpet manufacturer in Dalton City, Georgia, USA, successfully improved Tufting into a mechanical method to solve the problem of hand-woven tufts being difficult to make. In 1955, Europe began to adopt tufting. Tufted carpets are manufactured industrially.
How to make tufted carpet?
Tufting Tufting The steps for making handmade carpets include:
- First set up a weaving frame perpendicular to the ground. The weaving frame is embedded in cotton or canvas and unfolded flatly.
- Place the perforated paper with the base image printed on it on the back, or project the base image onto cotton or canvas.
- Use a tufting gun according to the pattern on the base picture to pierce the muzzle of the gun with yarns of different colors into the base fabric, forming a U-shaped loop pile with a terry cloth structure behind the base fabric.
- Glue on the back
- Trim loop pile
As for the tufted carpet Tufting handmade carpet production process, you can refer to this popular video on the Internet
Tufting Carpets Why are handmade carpets so popular?
When it comes to tufted carpets and the reason why handmade carpets are so popular, we must first get to know Alexandra Kehayoglou, a designer from Argentina.
Alexandra Kehayoglou's family is the largest hand-woven carpet brand in South America. For the 2015 Paris Fashion Week, Alexandra Kehayoglou used tufting technology to create a 3-meter-wide and 48-meter-long landscape-shaped cluster for the spring and summer women's wear show runway of Dries Van Noten. The velvet carpet shocked everyone after its debut, immediately sparked a conversation, and has since become a craze around the world.
This whirlwind has also blown into Taiwan. At the end of 2021, various Tufting handmade carpets or tufting DIY courses began to appear in the country, becoming an alternative healing experience during the epidemic.
Features of tufted carpets
The main differences between tufted carpets and traditional woven carpets are the following three parts:
- The size of hand-tufted carpets is not limited, and there is no need to weave rows and columns. The forms are changeable and can be presented in various styles such as circles, triangles, and even animals, giving more freedom and creativity in design. Make space.
- Color: You can be creative with colors and use yarns of various colors as the composition of the carpet. A variety of colors can better match the matching of walls and curtains, making space design more flexible.
- Graphic style: Not only does it provide more choices in size and color, the graphic style design of tufted carpets is also unlimited, providing customized or unique styles, covering both traditional and modern interior design styles.
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