How to Tuft Lesson 1: Cut vs Loop Pile
Hi I’m Shawna, I make tufted rugs and I’m gonna teach you how to tuft in micro lessons, in detail, from the beginning, let’s go. The first thing we’re gonna go over is loop vs cut pile because which one you want to do is going to inform which tufting gun you should buy. With either of these types of tufting, what the gun is doing is pushing yarn through fabric so that on the other side of the fabric your rug starts to form With loop pile, the tufting gun just pushes the yarn through. The yarn stays intact as one long strand that loops back and forth giving this well, loopy look With cut pile, after pushing the...