Wool Blend
Fiber
Wool blend rugs: wool with silk, viscose, nylon, cotton or jute
Wool blend rugs are rugs where wool is the main fiber and a second fiber is spun or woven in for sheen, strength, texture or price: silk or viscose for a highlight, nylon for resilience, cotton for a matte flatweave, jute or sisal for a natural texture. Interiors carries 1,212 wool blend styles, shipped from the mill, from Nourison (161), Prestige Mills (126), Harcourt Collection (121) and Ulster Carpets (106).
The blend decides the room. A wool and viscose blend, the most common here, puts a sheen into the pattern of a hand-knotted or hand-loomed rug for a living room or bedroom; the wool ground wears and the viscose catches light. A wool nylon blend carpet, usually 80 percent wool and 20 percent nylon, is the spec for stairs, halls and a family room, because nylon stops the wool pile from crushing in a lane; most Axminster and many Wilton broadlooms are this blend. Jute wool blend rugs and sisal wool blends give a flatweave with more softness than straight sisal. 366 styles are hand-loomed, 188 hand-knotted, 46 hand-tufted, 112 tufted broadloom, 92 machine woven and 68 flatweave; 1,067 are made to order and 145 custom.
Adara's Barcelona, Lola, Madrid and Seville are typical of the wool-sisal weaves. Check the fiber line on each style page, since blends behave like their minority fiber in a spill. See wool rugs for the pure fiber, silk and viscose for the highlight fiber on its own, and stair runners for the wool-nylon blends at work.
