Carpets are used for a variety of purposes, including insulating a person’s feet from a cold tile or concrete floor, making a room more comfortable as a place to sit on the floor rug), reducing sound from walking (particularly, and placing decoration or colour to a room. Carpets can be made in any colour by using differently dyed fibres. Carpets can have many different types of patterns and motifs used to decorate the surface. Carpets are used in industrial and commercial establishments such as retail stores and hotels and in private homes. Today, a huge range of carpets and rugs are available at many prices and quality levels, ranging from inexpensive, synthetic carpets that are mass-produced in factories and used in commercial buildings to costly hand-knotted wool rugs that are used in private homes.

Small wool carpets can be produced on a loom quite similar to woven fabric, made using needle felts, knotted by hand (in oriental rugs), made with their pile injected into a backing material (called tufting), flatwoven, made by hooking wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric, or embroidered. Carpet is commonly made in widths of 12 feet (3.7 m) and 15 feet (4.6 m) in the US and 4 m (13 ft) and 5 m (16 ft) in Europe. Since the 19th and 20th centuries, where necessary for wall-to-wall carpet, different widths of carpet can be seamed together with a seaming iron and seam tape (formerly it was sewn together) and fixed to a floor over a cushioned underlay (pad) using nails, tack strips (known in the UK as gripper rods), adhesives, or occasionally decorative metal stair rods. Wall-to-wall carpet is distinguished from rugs or mats, which are loose-laid floor coverings, as wall-to-wall carpet is fixed to the floor and covers a much larger area.

Machine-woven pure wool carpet has features such as flat and trim carpet surface, good gloss, high elasticity, soft feeling, wear-resistance and durability in use. Its performances are similar to those of hand-woven carpets, but its price is far lower than the latter. It is better than chemical fibre carpet in aspects such as rebound elasticity, static resistance, ageing resistance and fire resistance. Machine-woven sheep-wool carpet is the medium flooring decorative material between hand-woven pure wool carpet and chemical fibre carpet.

Machine-woven pure wool carpet is most suitable for the whole flooring of guest rooms in hotels and restaurants, stairs, passages, banqueting halls, bars and reception rooms as well as gymnasiums and living rooms etc. Moreover, the fire-retardant product of this kind of carpet is available for the interior flooring of buildings with high fireproof requirements.

References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/carpet-wool

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