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The Face Weight of carpet is talking about the weight in ounces per square yard.  The weight can tell you how durable the carpet is, and you can come up with measurements of the carpet.  The measurements are not always precise though because face weight does not take into consideration the height of the carpet.  When buying carpet you should choose a carpet with at least 35 ounces in face weight. The pile yard height  is the length of the carpet fibers from their end tips to the point where they reach the carpet backing.  The pile height adds to the density of the carpet.  Carpet density refers to how close the fibers are tufted together in the back of the carpet. Cut and loop carpet was very popular in the 1970s and the style is created by combining looped fibers and cut ones.  This kind of  carpet provides nice texture and visual interest.  Multi-level loop carpet has a dimensional appearance because of the different heights of loops. ...

Flax is grown on a large scale in Western Europe.  There is about 100 days between planting and harvest. Harvesting flax is in June and the flax plant only blooms for one day.  While harvesting it is uprooted instead of cut because the fibers go all the way through the roots.  There is a retting stage where the flax plant is laid out collect moisture that helps break down the fibers that keep the plant together.  Scutching and Hackling is the next process where they take the flax by hand and work the fibers out in order to get it to be a very fine texture.  From there it is spun in to flax yarns.  Flax is turned into linen fabric which is used for many different things.  Linen can be sold straight from the loom without being treated. This gives us a visual of what the flax looks like at the beginning and how it changes with each step. The video I watched about wool came from Alpaca instead of Sheep like I am used to looking at.  First step is the ...

    Polyester is a manufactured filament yarn.  It is mixed from acid and alcohol creating little plastic pellets.  They are then melted down and go through a grill splitting the melted substance into fine strings.  The strings are then twisted and pinned together creating the yarn.  The yarn goes through a long stretching process until it ends up on a yarn roll.  Polyester is one of the most used fibers in today's society.  It is sustainable and durable, and uses less water to clean it.  Another pro of polyester is that it is soft and lightweight.  The process of creating polyester yarns is long, but it has added many different options to our line of work.    The picture on the left gives a brief diagram of the polyester yarn process.  What goes into the pellets and eventually how it comes out of the spinneret and creates the filament. Nanjing Yunjin Brocade is an old traditional Chinese weaving method...