Have you ever experienced the sumptuousness of walking on a wool carpet? Woolmark and Woolmark Blend carpets and furnishing fabrics are renowned for their quality, outstanding performance, appearance retention and natural durability.

Wool is the most naturally flame resistant fibre. Woolmark and Woolmark Blend carpets are renowned for their outstanding performance not only because of their appearance retention and durability, but also because of their natural safety features.

Wool is naturally flame resistant; it is difficult to ignite and has low flame spread and heat release properties. This is because of its high moisture and nitrogen content. Wool does not melt or drip and has excellent self extinguishing properties. As a result, pure new wool carpets comply with many international flammability regulations without the need for additional flame resistant treatments.

Relax in the reassurance of a wool carpet

Even temperature: By dispersing moisture, Wool provides a reliable under foot temperature all year round.

Flame retardant: With its natural flame resistance and anti static properties it is one of the safest choices for carpeting.

Noise reduction: Wool contains natural noise absorbing fibres helping to reduce the stressful hum of everyday living.

Durability: A wool carpet will retain its appearance and durability over other fibres, providing outstanding quality and value for money.

Your pure new wool carpet also complies with many international flammability regulations eliminating the need for additional, expensive flame resistant treatments.

Wool Carpet Styles

Printed carpet

Today’s technology has vastly improved the ability to print delightful designs with a limitless range of colours. Yarn is manufactured, tufted in white or raw form followed by printing, backcoating and finishing. This process ensures a quality print that offers long-lasting durability, accommodating comfort and distinctive style.  

Felted wool carpet

Felted Wool is made by a process which by combining the effects of agitation, temperature and liquid interlocks the wool fibres. This process ensures clearer tuft definition, retention of tuft definition and reduced fibre shedding providing superior resilience and greater appearance retention.

Wool Berber

Looking for a unique foundation to style your house, look no further! Wool Berber offers a rough, chunky almost retro appearance, proudly exposing earthy and natural colours with additional highlight effects  that will provide you with a unique platform to create an exquisite yet accommodating style in your home.

Wool Tweed

Exhibiting an amazing array of colours, wool tweed may just be the colour injection your house is after. Dyed and undyed yarns, mixed in a base blend creates a tweed like effect that combined with alluring colours provides you with a multifaceted element.

Wool Heather

Characterised by a smooth appearance, wool Heather is the pinnacle of elegance. The yarn is well carded, generally in the fine to medium yarn count range and produced in a variety of intimately blended colours. 

Wool Capet Types

Woven carpets

From the earliest times, wool has been woven into carpets. From the simple, hand-operated looms of traditional craftsmen in exotic locations, to the modern, hi-tech operations of today’s multinational carpet manufacturers, woven carpets have earned a prized reputation for durability, longevity, practicality and beauty.

Single-frame Wilton

One of the methods used to make plain woven carpet. As the backing is being woven, pile yarns are introduced lengthways, (that is, from the warp direction) and looped over wires inserted across (weft direction) the weaving machine.

Multi-frame Wilton

A manufacturing process used to make multi-colour patterned Wilton carpet. The system can also combine cut and loop pile, add sculptured or embossed effects and create other textures difficult to obtain on any other type of machine. With this system, when any colour is not visible on the surface of the carpet, the yarn is carried along the inside of the backing. This gives a thicker feel underfoot with excellent wear properties.

Face-to-face Wilton

Uses machines which simultaneously weave two backing fabrics linked together by pile yarns which are later sliced apart to give two cut-pile carpets.

Axminster

Gripper Axminster describes the carpet-making process by which the pattern is controlled by a jacquard which lifts the required colour to the correct height so that a gripper, or beak, can grip the yarn and insert it into the backing. The number of colours is limited according to the jacquard mechanism attached to the loom.

Spool Axminster describes the process which offers the use of an unlimited number of colours since they are pre-set on a spool and inserted into the backing yarns from a continuous spool holder chain.

Gripper Spool Axminster combines the advantages of both gripper and spool to give unlimited colour and design potential.

Axminster carpets are carpets of many colours.

Wool Rugs

A wool rug is the perfect premium accessory, combining sophistication with practicality and durability. They are available in a variety of weaves, sizes, weights and patterns.

Tufted carpets

Tufted carpets offer versatility in terms of colour, pattern and texture. To make tufted carpets, tufts are individually inserted into a woven or non-woven backing using a needling technique. The backing is coated with a latex compound to anchor the tufts. A secondary backing is almost always needed on tufted carpets to add dimensional stability and mechanical strength. Patterning attachments give a variety of textures and patterns.

Bonded and knitted carpets

Knitted Carpets are made using a method by which the backing, stitching and pile yarn are simultaneously combined to form a pile fabric. The pile is anchored by a coating of latex at the back and sometimes a secondary backing is added to enhance handle and dimensional stability.

Produced by inserting tufts into a PVC compound which has been applied to a backing fabric, design capability is limited and most bonded carpets are in plain colours. 

Carpet tiles

The luxury of a wool carpet, the practicality of a tile. The processes involved when creating carpet tiles, along with yarn blend, yarn type and carpet construction, are almost identical to that of other carpet making methods. The key difference is that carpet tiles are specifically manufactured on specialist machinery, backcoated and cut to size.

The use of carpet tiles allows easy removal and replacement of damaged tiles, easy access to subfloors, easy installation in difficult locations, access to flat cabling and means that no underlay is needed.

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