Shop by Construction
Shop by construction
Rugs and carpet by construction to the trade
Rugs and carpet by construction to the trade: how a style is made decides how it wears, how it feels and what it costs, so this is the filter to start with. The hand-made rugs are hand-knotted (555 styles), hand-loomed and hand-woven (1,365), hand-tufted (592), flatweave (332) and braided (132). The woven broadlooms are Wilton (952) and Axminster (58); the machine-made are tufted (897) and machine woven (877).
In short: hand-knotted for the heirloom, hand-loomed for the everyday wool rug, flatweave and Wilton for stairs and halls, Axminster for a pattern in many colors, tufted for wall to wall value, machine woven for a traditional pattern at a working price. Each page explains the construction once and names the mills that do it best; lead times are at availability.
