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What is the Hand Tufted rugs?

There are different type of rugs, handmade hand knotted , hand tufted, and the machine made these are the most common way of Rug making today I am going to talk about hand tufted rugs which becoming very popular in United States they looks nice price are usually not compatible with the oriental rugs and they are cheaper. we will discuss why they are cheaper and how long they will last. and how they make them.

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Hand Tufted rug making procces.

When we make oriental rugs we go line by line and knot individually each one to the foundation so that’s why while you are using Rug stay in the shape and last for long time. weaving process in hand tufted rug is difference they make a loom and machine put through all of the yarn to the loom with no knots after the rug finished they bring it down from the loom and put glue all over the backing and cover by the fabric as the time pass glue dry and You will see a lot of powders under your rugs usually most of hand tufted rugs does not last more than 10 years because they lose the shape and most of the time becomes very uneven. if you are looking for short time maybe is good choice . but for long term it is not . buy hand made hand knotted rugs they all good either Persian rugs Turkish rugs Indian rugs or Pakistani rugs.

Cleaning hand tufted rugs.

When we are talking about hand tufted rug cleaning we do them same as oriental rugs at rug masters the only problem we usually have we cannot dust them as much as we do on oriental rugs and we cannot keep them in the water for a long time and the drying is always hard because of the backing so usually cleaning of hand tufted rug is not as easy as of handmade rugs and the result is always is not as good as customer expectation because of the material and how they made them and the backing usually become very loose after the washing best way to be careful if you have hand tufted rugs and you are trying to use for long time not to make them dirty to much, As we can wash hand made rugs as many times as you want but hand tufted rugs are only two or three times . after that you need to either buy a new one or put the new backing which is expensive. please email me if you have any questions