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