Published On: July 28, 2022399 words2 min read

What kind of carpet do you want?

It is not easy to answer this question accurately only by language, because carpet is a big concept classified into many categories according to different standard.

  • Classification by the use position

Floor Carpet : The most traditional carpet category with the largest consumption, mainly used for floor laying in various places

Wall Tapestry : Mainly used for wall decoration and embellishment, generally based on landscape paintings and figure paintings in traditional paintings.

  • Classification by the production method,

Machine Made Carpet: including tufted carpets, woven Wilton carpet and woven Axminster carpet.

Hand Made Carpet: including hand woven carpet and hand tufted carpet.

  • Classification by purpose

Commercial Carpet: widely used in in hotels, office buildings, restaurants, airport terminals, wharf surf hall, station waiting hall, supermarkets, hospitals, schools, nursing homes, nurseries, cinemas and other places.

Household Carpet: a combination of wall to wall carpeting and area rugs for doorway, living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, etc.

Industrial Carpet: used for flooring of factory workshop, cars, planes, passenger ships, trains, etc.

  • Classification by product form

Wall to Wall Carpet: with Width 4Mmax, laying on all the ground between the two indoor walls, generally used in rooms, wards, meeting rooms, offices, halls, guest rooms, corridors and other occasions.

Area Rugs: width no more than 4 m, and the length in proper proportion to the width. with fine workmanship, complex and colorful patterns and certain artistic appreciation value,
laid on the ground as bedroom rugs, living room rugs, doormat or artistic foot pads as well as hand up on the wall as a tapestries.

Carpet Tiles: Generally 500 × 500 mm squares as well as other shape and size, very convenient to carry, store, install and replace in pieces, popular for office buildings, ships, airports, computer rooms

  • Classification by raw materials

Wool Carpets :mostly made from wool

A. Pure wool carpet: wool content ≥ 95%;

B. Wool carpet: 80% ≤ wool content <95%;

C. Wool blended carpet: 20% ≤ wool content <80%;

D. Blended carpet: wool content <20%

Chemical Fiber (synthetic fiber) Carpet: made of nylon, polypropylene, acrylic, polyester, PTT characterized by strong wear resistance ,corrode resistance and mildew resistance

Carpet of other natural fiber such as cotton, jute, sisal are welcome by more and more people.

 

Then, a piece of carpet could be these carpet at the same time: floor carpet, machine made carpet, house hold carpet, area rug, chemical fiber carept……Can you tell what is your carpet?

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