(Also known as Tientsin, Full Cut, or Latex)

The hand-tufted rug looks and feels very much like a hand-knotted rug. This is because it uses the same fine wool and dyes as the fine knotted rugs use. It differs in the construction method. Instead of tying each knot by hand, the tufted rug is made with a tufting gun (B) from the back of the rug. (Rug hooking is similar but done from the front.) This method saves a lot of time and keeps the price of the rug much lower than a knotted rug of equal size. CONSTRUCTION STEPS 1) Stretch foundation cloth (A) onto loom 2) Ink design onto this same cloth 3) Gun tuft the wool yarn (C) from the back of the cloth as shown above (D) 4) Finish entire design changing yarn color as needed 5) Take rug off loom and place it face down on floor 6) Place scrim (F) upon back and apply layer of latex (E) 7) After latex dries, shear face, wash and emboss 8) Sew on the back cloth. (Protects floor surface from the roughness of the latex and scrim.) 9) Sew on fringe.