Carpet Industry Terms and Glossary

For your convenience, the following are terms and definitions relating to carpet manufacturing.

Abrasion Resistance to Axminster
Back Coating to Bulking
Cable Yarn to Cut Pile
Dead Yarn to Dye Site
End to Extrusion
Face Weight to Fuzzing
Gauge/Pitch to Grinning
Hand to Hybrid Carpet
Indoor Air Quality to ISO

J-Cut to Jute
Knitting to Kuster
Latex to Luster
Matting to Multilevel Loop Pile
Nap to Nylon—Type 6,6
Olefin Fiber to Ozone Fading
Random Sheared to Rows or Wires
Sawtooth Crimp to Synthetic Fiber

Tensile Strength to Two-Ply
Unitary to Urethane
Velvet Carpet to Vinyl
Warp to Woven Carpet
Xenon Arc Lamp
Yarn to Yarn Weight
Zippering

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Carpet Industry Terms and Glossary

Carpet Industry Terms and Glossary