Carpet Tufting Machine

Over 95% of the carpet manufactured in the United States is tufted rather than woven. A tufting machine is essentially a huge sewing machine, usually twelve feet wide, with hundreds of needles that insert loops of yarn into the primary backing of the carpet. Yarn is fed from a creel, one tube of yarn for each needle and threaded through the needles. The tufting machine is set up to produce level loop, multi-level loop, cut pile, and cut and loop pile structures.

The tufting machine’s needles punch the yarn through the primary backing, which is fed into the machine from the rear. The looper forms the pile and determines the pile height. Loopers with a cutting knife attached are used to produce cut-pile or plush carpet. The carpet is manufactured “fuzzy side down”. A loop-pile machine does not have those knives, leaving the loops uncut.

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