Sculptural carpets: manufacturing technology, decorative possibilities of embossed coatings, carpets of machine production and copyright copies of handmade
The carpet is one of the few things that we buy for many years. Among the many new products included in our area are sculptural carpets. What is it and what is their beneficial effect?
So-called sculptural or embossed carpets are manufactured by technology of manual tafting (packing). At the same time, the twisted thread is fond with a special pistol. Then, according to the technology, the carpet surface is repeatedly subjected to cleaning and polished. Finally comes the most interesting: different loop in height and density are cut like a lawn. A results of this curly haircut occurs an intricate volume-graphic pattern. Carpets acquire the sculptural volume of individual fragments. The pattern of this product can be "considered to the touch." Thus, the name reflects the most noticeable feature of the lounge-relief of the beser surface. A significant part of the Russian market is occupied by carpets of machine production worth up to 10 thousand rubles. In quality, they, of course, are inferior to handmade products, but they are quite capable of decorating any room. True, due to the low density and a poor color scheme, a good study of a small drawing is difficult - it will most likely get blurred. Therefore, inexpensive carpets, as a rule, have geometric ornamental triangles or circles on a neutral background.
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1. Tier in the form of a giant openwork napkin. Wrought a wool pile, which formed a pattern resembling a fillet lace.
2. Relief canvas Create (Ligne Pure, Belgium). Composition - 100% wool. (Carpet HOIDE).
3-4.Clip carpet does not look like a serial product, even if it really is.
5. ROSE (Carpet House) is created by individual orders. If required, the carpet size can be increased, provided that it has been made of existing yarn and precisely on this production.
6. The thickness of the thick and thin yarn in the carpet padding is one of the means of creating an interesting textured canvase. Carpet Dynamic (Arte Espina, Netherlands) is suitable for the bathroom. It is made of 100% acrylic with water-repellent properties.
7. Tai Ping Carpets (China). Composition, cotton. The use of a loop pile in combination with a split creates an additional game of textures.
8. According to the existing conviction, the sculpture carpet attracts no more dust than others. Dust settles on his pile, and it can be removed by a conventional vacuum cleaner. Gandia Blasco (Spain).
Of particular interest are the author's copies of the work of famous designers. More expensive there are only carpets to order. Author's handmade carpet is picked up by manually by an individual sketch. Sculpture carpets are made of first-class wool, most often of the New Zealand, or high-quality synthetic fiber (acrylic), often indistinguishable to the touch from natural materials (including cotton), nylon. All sorts of combinations of these materials are also permissible. It is almost impossible to perform a relief carpet from silk, since the silk thread has a loose structure and cannot hold shape. Therefore, in sculptural carpets, it is used to create spectacular decorative inserts of small sizes.
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9. Schever Fantasize (Ligne Pure) due to the high relief looks very impressive. (Carpet HOIDE).
10. The large carpet of the size of 32.5 m is able to form the appearance of the interior and can visually change the proportions of the room.
11-12.Clip coatings have orthopedic (wool) and relaxing (silk) properties.
13. The sensitive pattern and the main background is one color. Such a coating (a rallular low pile) is permissible to use even in the hallway and corridors, most susceptible to pollution.
14. "Talent Brightness". It seems that it was so rethought by the famous transcription of the creators of the ESPRIT carpet (Germany) of the color of the emerald sea wave.
15. The ESPRIT carpet in appearance and to the touch is the same as wool, but it does not electrify and absolutely resistant to humidity.
16.The item is a detail of the ornament has a certain local color. The curly haircut emphasizes the transition of one tone to another. Thanks to her, a flat vegetable pattern becomes bulk. Stepevi product (Turkey) is made of wool with the addition of artificial thread, similar to the texture on silk.
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The skillful wizards are not worse than the hairdresser virtuoso dysfect patterns manually in accordance with the parameters specified by the designer. The pile height differences are 6-40mm, so it is not difficult to imagine how non-uniform to the touch there is a similar carpet. Play with shape and color allows and pile of different textures. Thanks to the mixing texture, the surface of the carpet becomes the grainy, like granite, the soft and fluffy, like natural fur (for example, beaver, mink, brown bear).
How to care for outdoor sculpture
In the production process, sculptural carpets are treated with antistatic and dirt-repellent compositions, and cleaning with a detergent vacuum cleaner can destroy the protective cover created by them. But vacuuming without a brush (it causes a branch of the undercoat, that is, non-flimple fibers) and detergents need no less often than 2 times insteps. Cleaning carpets are only manually using special brushes, non-aggressive soap and soft water. Such products do not require some special care: the paint used to dye the threads is not erased and is not washed off. However, if there is a need to resort to the help of specialists (let's say, the carpet was shed wine or planted a bold spot), the manufacturers are serviced by their products. The masters go to the house and perform professional cleaning. The cost and duration of the procedure depends on the degree of pollution and used to clean the means. If the owners have no allergic reaction to wool, cleaning will not cause allergies. The main danger for the carpet. But it never starts in the carpet, which are constantly used.
Waby such an outdoor coating can be like a forest with shrubs and trees or the sea coast, where there is an opportunity to touch each stone with their hands.
There are not many firms on the Russian market offering design services and creating copyright carpets. The term of making a similar product abroad is 2-3 months. Companies in Russia, which have their own production, perform an order for 3-4med. The cost of embossed carpets is high enough: 1m2 of the simplest product - from 15 thousand rubles.
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17.Relphic Wool cloth with the addition of Golden Lurex. Carpets can also be made with metal inserts, bamboo and glass. Ornamental parts are limited below the background level.
18.Interior inserts from faceted rhinestones are one of the decor elements. As a rule, the stones are trying to drown in the thickness of the carpet so that they do not scratch the feet.
19. Fragment of a three-color carpet with original embossed edition (convex parts highly protrude above the background plane). The price of such a product is directly proportional to the number of local colors used in its design.
20. And less than the height of the pile and above its density, the less marked traces from the furniture on the relief canvas are noticeable.
21. Possible chic- original drawing, allowing to see the basis of the Gandia Blasco carpet.
22.The special paints are significantly cheaper and contrary to widespread opinions are much more resistant than natural. However, they give a new carpet an unpleasant chemical smell. The quality of the dye can be checked, losing the product with a piece of wet fabric. If traces remain on it, you should not buy the carpet.
Author- on the carpet!
Order An individual carpet is easy: the company's designer comes to the client, makes the measurement of the room, necessarily photographs the interior and those details that I would like to repeat in the ornament of the product. The pattern can be tied to many elements of the decoration of the house: curtains, upholstery of upholstered furniture, stucco, "silent" their drawing, colors and texture.
Opinion of a specialist
With the help of touch, we get a huge amount of information about the external world. Tactile sensations help to determine the boundaries of our capabilities, delivered pleasure and even affect the level of stress experienced by man. There is also feedback: the more effective the person uses the touch, the more intense the brain develops. Now pays great attention to the upbringing of children, given that the touch can be improved from the first days of the life of the kid. The more diverse the tactile feelings of the child, the more active it is formed certain brain structures, and therefore it will continue to study faster. Therefore, it is useful to have houses of carpets of different types: say, winter, fluffy (it is pleasant to "drown" in it), and summer, with short swallows, rough to the touch. An adult person is no less pleasant to feel warm, soft or, on the contrary, grungy, massive carpet that will act relaxes on it.
Polina Tsvetkov, Psychologist
Work on the author's embossed blade begins with the creation and harmonization of the picture, which should fit into the interior and comply with the wishes of the customer. Designers are developing sketches (usually two), taking into account the location of furniture and features of the situation. Not only the drawing and shape will be chosen, but also the material from which the carpet will do. When the sketch is ready, discuss all the technological features of the carpet manufacturing (pile, its height and density, the presence of a pattern of a loop, a combination of thick and thin threads). After it is made of a sample size of 6040cm (its price - from 4600rup. - Then it will be deducted from the total cost of the order) and the client will approve it, the "scheme" of the future carpet will go on production (more often than China or Thailand, less often in Russia).
Thanks to the height and various forms of packing (it can be loop, cut, as well as combined), the technique of radiation (soft stretching color) and a special haircut, the carpet is exceptionally expressive, with its own "face". Ibestically, like any author's handmade thing, has a certain artistic value.
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The carpet is based on a designer drawing. The master fills the twisted thread based on the back of the carpet with a special pistol (23,24). Each thread is fixed on the basis of separately. Such manufacturing technique ensures the strength and density of the product and determines the texture of the future carpet (25.26). At the final stage of production, the stamped pile will be fixed on the back of the latex on a natural basis and is closed with a lining so that the nodes do not scratch the floor.
Mattering plan
Working out sketches of sculptural carpets, designers take into account all the details of the situation, its palette and style, as well as the placement of furniture. Therefore, it appears not to just choose, but to design a relief carpet, like any other element of the interior. Someone facilitates the task and orders the carpet of the right size according to the catalog, changing some fragments and tones if necessary. Creative-minded natures are not looking for light paths, but prefer to "compose" themselves, choosing an ornament, a stylistic solution and color.
Interestingly, the sculptural technology is applicable both for wall-mounted and for floor carpets, but in the overwhelming majority of cases they can be seen on the floor. Probably because the effect of volume is better perceived in the horizontal plane. The same carpet not only pleases the eye, but also gives pleasant tactile feelings, on such a carpet of feet comfortable and warm.
At the request of the Customer, you can make a carpet of any size and any of the most incredible form that copies even a very complex room configuration. Often there are covers, "flowing" furniture or decorative elements (for example, columns), as well as repeating bends of stairs. If the pile carpet, the more sculptural, has a very dense pile, the likelihood that dents from the feet of furniture items will remain on it, is small. But still, if you are going to "live" on the carpet, and not just admire it, it is worth providing the stands of wood or skin under the furniture legs. They are glued directly on the relief cloth in the right places. This option is especially relevant for wool carpets with a long pile, for example in the bedroom. True, this method is suitable only to conservatives, because the furniture will continue to stand at this place.
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After stuffing, the surface of the carpet is repeatedly polished (27) and then littered at an angle of 45 in accordance with the specified parameters (28). From the same material you can make absolutely different on the touch carpets. The pile with the help of the brush is manually cleaned from the undercoat, which appears on the surface after the haircut (29). This process is associated with the "origin" of wool. Putting the animal is a shorter hair. It is knocked out from the carpet. For the first time, 2-3 uses the carpet will continue to "lift".
The editorial board thanks Carpet House, Lege Alto, "Home Foreign", "World of Carpets" for help in preparing the material.