Hand-Tufted
Construction
Hand tufted rugs: hand-made texture on a shorter lead time
Hand tufted rugs are made by punching pile yarn through a stretched canvas with a hand-held tufting gun, following a pattern drawn on the cloth, then sealing the back with latex and a cotton scrim. The look is hand-made, with carved and looped detail, but the rug takes days to make instead of months, which is why hand tufted wool rugs are the most common way to get a thick wool rug on schedule. Interiors carries 183 hand tufted styles from Couristan (26), Nourison (26), BIC Carpets (19) and Prestige Mills (17), all shipped from the mill.
112 of the styles are wool, 46 wool blend and most run a 1/2 to 3/4 inch pile that can be carved, sculpted or mixed cut and loop. 149 are made to order in 6 to 10 weeks and 24 are custom programs in any size or shape. BIC's Fly, Flow, Fuse and Mecca are the contemporary end.
Spec hand tufted for bedrooms, living rooms and any room where the client wants depth of pile and a wool hand without a hand-knotted lead time or price. It sheds for the first few months, should be vacuumed without a beater bar and the latex back means it is not reversible and not for a damp room. If the rug is meant to last a generation, read the hand knotted comparison on the hand knotted rugs page; for standard sizes see wool rugs.
