Now more than ever, you are seeing MACHINE made rugs coming through your doors. It used to be that these were still WOOL rugs, but today a number of olefin, polyester, and other synthetic fibers come your way. And they have “traditional” hand woven rug designs, so to an untrained eye and hand, you can [...]
Tough To Dry Tuft!
Basically you have two major groups of rugs – woven and tufted. The easiest way to identify one from the other is that on woven (whether by hand or by machine) you can see the design on the back side. Tufted you don’t. Okay – that’s not an absolute truth, but pretty close. When I [...]
Dye Test Video
Here is the video clip on dye testing – enjoy! http://www.viddler.com/explore/RugCareCentral/videos/29/