Carpet

Carpet is a floor covering made of cotton, wool, silk, hemp, coconut palm or chemical fiber. Including hand tufted carpet, machine-made carpet and hand felt carpet. Broadly speaking, it also includes bedding, seat cushion, wall hanging, curtain, saddle mattress, door curtain, table blanket, etc. In the Neolithic Age, people used animal hair to twist and spin it into thread and weave it into thick woolen fabrics to pave the ground. The carpet fragments unearthed from the tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China are typical hand tufted carpets. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, on the basis of inheriting the traditional carpet technology, combined with the characteristics of brocade and embroidery art, a unique carpet pattern with auspicious meanings was created and has been circulating. In the 20th century, Beijing and Tianjin established enterprises to produce export carpets, becoming key carpet production areas in China. The traditional production areas of hand tufted carpets in the world are concentrated in East Asia, Central Asia and countries at the junction of Europe and Asia. Since 1720, when the British first created the Brussels carpet loom, the machine-made carpet came into being. Up to now, machine-made carpet has accounted for 99% of the world's total consumption, while hand-made carpet only accounts for 1%. There are many ways to classify carpets, including hand tufted carpets, hand woven plain carpets, hand tufted carpets, hand felt carpets and machine-made carpets; It can be divided into carpet, kang blanket, wall blanket, prayer blanket, etc; According to the raw materials, it can be divided into wool carpet, silk carpet, jute carpet, chemical fiber carpet, etc.