How carpet is made?
Principles of Tufting
Tufted carpet manufacture consists essentially of stiiching pile yarn into a backing fabric and subsequently looking the tufts in place by means of an adhesives, usually latex. Multiple needles (typically more than 1000) threaded with pile yarn span the working width of the tufting machine and must all operate precisely in the same manner to produced even quality carpet.
Key steps in the tufting processes.
- Yarn transferred from cones to large creel (or from large spools called beams) onto the machines.
- The primary backing feed into the machine.
- Yarn and primary backing come together in the machine
- The tufted carpet is inspected and mended where necessary.
- Soft-form carpet is rolled into large rolls for the next step (backing process).