Rugs Made by People NOT Machines

One of our client washed recently his small rug using the washing machine. Luckily the rug was not damaged. If you have to wash your handmade carpet, please don’t do this mistake! Never wash your handmade rugs in the washing machine, even if you use these so called special “wool program” or cold water. The [...]

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When I search online for Handmade rugs or Oriental rugs, I often end up on websites with a “really nice looking” rug at a “really cheap” price! That’s where I get suspicious and discover that what some websites call handmade rugs are NOT at all handmade but “hand-tufted rugs” made using a “tufting gun”.

You can see some hand-tufted rugs here.

A gun to make a rug? What’s the story behind these so-called hand-tufted rugs ?

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