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Carpet varieties and styles

Carpet is divided into chemical fiber carpet, wool carpet, hemp carpet and other varieties; although the carpet has different materials and styles, but all have a good sound-absorbing, sound insulation, moisture-proof role. Living in the building after the family carpet, can reduce the upstairs and downstairs noise interference. Carpets also have the role of cold, heat preservation, especially suitable for rheumatism patients living room use. Woolen carpet is the carpet in the top grade, is known as the interior decorative art of the "queen".

The structure of the carpet is mainly made of animal hair, plant hemp, synthetic fibers and other raw materials, after weaving, cutting and other processing of a high-grade floor decoration materials. Carpets mainly have two categories of pure wool and chemical fiber: pure wool carpet is divided into two kinds of hand-woven and machine-woven. The former is the use of traditional handmade craft production of pure wool carpet products, the latter is the recent development of the use of machine production of pure wool carpet products.

Pure wool carpet

Hand-woven pure wool carpet. Hand-woven pure wool of tons of second year is the use of high-quality sheep wool spinning, dyeing with modern dyeing technology, hand-woven by the weaving workers based on the design drawings, and then special machinery to level the carpet surface or cut out the perimeter of the concave flower, and finally chemically washed out of the mercerization. Hand-woven carpets have a long history in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Ningxia and other places in China, and they are also produced in foreign countries such as Iran, India, Pakistan, Turkey and Australia. Due to the different carpet culture, thus the pattern, color and style of the carpet form their own different regional styles.

2) Machine woven pure wool tons of second year. Machine woven pure wool carpet due to the use of machine production, improve the efficiency, save manpower, so the price is lower than the hand-woven carpet, but its performance is similar to the hand-woven pure wool carpet, is between the hand-woven pure wool carpet and chemical fiber carpet between the carpet is a kind of middle and high grade carpet, used in hotels, conference rooms, banquet halls, residential use.

Chemical fiber carpet

Chemical fiber carpet is a chemical synthetic cuttings as raw materials processed into the surface fabric, and backing materials glued together. According to the different chemical fibers used, divided into polypropylene chemical fiber carpet, acrylic chemical fiber carpet, polyamide chemical fiber carpet, polyester chemical fiber carpet. According to the weaving method can also be divided into tufted chemical fiber carpet, needle tied chemical fiber carpet, woven chemical fiber carpet and printing chemical fiber carpet.