Greige goods pronounced gray goods undyed carpet or other textile materials.
Carpet pitch and rows.
Our highest domestic pitch is an 8 x 10 eight columns across and ten rows down per square inch with a staggering 80 tiny holes per square inch to weave the yarn through.
The weight of the pile can be provided in grammes per square metre or ounces per square yard according to iso 8543 bs 4223.
Mcgraw hill dictionary of architecture and construction.
7 inch 7.
68 6 cm width of carpet.
3 63m 11 10 7 8 3 66m 12 and 4 00m 13 1 1 2 3.
9 inch 6.
Axminster carpet specification density.
All the looms at the wilton carpet factory produce carpets at 7 rows per inch 276 per 10cm gauge.
Gauge pitch the number of ends of surface yarn counting across the width of carpet.
In woven carpet pitch is the number of ends of yarn in 27 inches of width.
Some carpets with a lower tuft twist rating may feature a higher pile density to try to compensate.
80 british and new zealand wool 20 ascend type 6 6 nylon 5.
7 x 10 1.
For axminster use architectural tack strip with three rows of pins or two conventional strips with two rows of pins for carpet with heavily latexed backs most woven and berber style carpet and for rooms exceeding 30 feet.
10 inch 6.
Woven jacquard axminster 4.
80 british and new zealand wool 20 ascend type 6 6 nylon 5.
In tufted carpet gauge is the number of ends of surface yarn per inch counting across the carpet.
1 10 gauge is equivalent to 270 pitch or 10 ends per inch x 27.
E g 1 8 gauge 8 ends per inch.
Carpet pitch the number of warp yarn ends per inch crosswise of the loom.
Axminster carpet specification density.
Carpet blossom or blooming is a common carpet condition where the tuft begins to un twist and starts to look worn out matted down and ugly.
Usually expressed in terms of the number of pile yarn ends in a 27 in.
To convert gauge to pitch multiply ends per inch by 27 e g.
Our most popular pitch for a designed carpet is our unique 8 x 8 pitch.
Grin condition where the carpet backing shows between the rows of pile yarns.
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At axminster we make our carpets using the best pitch available per feature or design of the carpet.
3 63m 11 10 7 8 3 66m 12 and 4 00m 13 1 1 2 3.
Woven jacquard axminster 4.
For tufted carpets the gauge is 1 10 of an inch.
7 inch 7.