HUMANS have handmade rugs out of every possible material for millennia. Ancient tribes wove together reeds and grasses to make primitive rugs and keep the cold ground warm, and now, hand-woven carpets are beloved for their artistic value. During the lockdown, many picked up creative hobbies to fill their days, and tufting was one of them.
Tufting requires either a manual or electric gun, which is a handheld machine where yarn is fed through a needle and subsequently punched in rapid succession through a backing fabric. Automatic tufting guns have a sharp end which cuts the yarn after each poke which creates the evenly-length grass-like pile carpet look.
