Carpet
Carpet Types and Styles
Here is today’s lesson folks only because it makes understanding this surface a little easier when choosing the look you are going for on your home flooring. Carpet type and style are independent of one another but are dependent upon each other in certain respects. Let me try my best to explain. A carpet type describes how the carpet is stitched and whether it is a cut, loop, or a combination of both. I bet you can’t guess what they decided to call the combination type? Queue the game show music…its called, cut and loop carpet. Carpet is actually made on a large sewing machine called a tufting machine. When the yarn is being stitched into what is called a primary backing which holds the yarn in place, it is actually one line of continuous yarn of many that form the whole carpet running lengthwise on the roll. Type is decided by either cutting the stitched yarn that is looped through the backing or leaving it alone. You can figure out the type just by looking at it. But, it probably took a team of marketers to come up with the genius idea of formally calling these types…wait for it…drum roll, please…Cut Pile, Loop Pile and finally Cut and Loop Pile.
When we unpack these types we form the styles.