axminster carpet

 Axminster carpet, NOT �Axminaster,� was the most common form of weaving carpet and rugs. Axminster carpet will always be cut pile and most often will be a single level cut pile. However, it can be made as a multi-level cut pile, which is usually done by using hard and soft twist yarns and heat to shrink the fibers. There are two ways of weaving Axminsters. The first being the �Gripper,� and the second known as the �Spool.� They both produce the same product, but smaller runs can be produced with the �Gripper� method.

You will notice a slight difference in the two, such as the face yarns being more noticeable on the back of the carpet as well as the carpet being more flexible with the �Spool� method. The Axminsters  will usually be a six-shot per row product. Wilton and Velvet call the number of rows per inch of length, a wire. They are referred to as a row in the Axminsters and will most always be double. What appears to be a three-weft yarn, shot across the width if examined closely, will actually be a six.

Each time a weft yarn is shot across the width, it is a double shot per row of face yarns. This is what allows Axminsters their great dimensional stability and explains why it is easily folded in the width, but not in the length.

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