Wool Carpets

Any modern interior without a beautiful carpet sometimes looks not very comfortable. The ideal solution, which has not only a practical component, but also has a good effect on the health of the household, can be a carpet made of natural wool.

High-quality carpet products from real wool have the following advantages:

• Durability and softness;
• Resistance to crushing;
• Have the ability to concentrate moisture, not getting wet;
• Superbly retain heat;
• Possess antibacterial and fire-resistant characteristics;
• Well hold the original form;
• Possess sound insulation properties.

Children whose skin is often exposed to sheep's wool, almost do not suffer from allergies, do not suffer from viral diseases and infections.

However, there are natural wool products and negative indicators:

• They do not fade like silk or synthetic products;
• They require careful maintenance, as they are afraid of moths;
• Accumulate static electricity;
• Have a high cost.

Wool products are contraindicated for those who are allergic to natural wool. In addition, chemical reagents that are used in the processing of wool can lead to allergic reactions.

Modern synthetic flooring (nylon, polypropylene, polyester) has a number of significant advantages - resistant to wiping, quickly cleaned, highly resistant to fading, moisture-resistant, in appearance and feel sometimes resemble natural wool, but much cheaper than its natural counterpart.But still they do not have those excellent quality characteristics that have natural wool.

Wool carpets are usually made of sheep wool with the addition of camel or goat. Camel wool is the strongest on this list, followed by goat and then sheep. Often in the shops you can find rugs made from the wool of the Angora goat or llama.

Also very popular is the felt product. The production process of felt is very labor-intensive - first the wool is prepared: shears it, washed and dried, weave and dye, laid out on the mat, and then with the help of boiling water and soap it is tamped.

By the presence of wool products are:

• wool blend (less than 50% wool),
• wool (from 50% and more, for example, in the proportion of 20% artificial fiber and 80% wool). Wool will provide a wonderful combination of comfort and appearance, nylon will add strength.
• completely woolen (100% wool) ..

Cotton fibers, jute, coconut fiber, hemp and flax are excellent natural bases for carpet.The quality of these materials is very high.

Palaces of mixed composition are much cheaper than fully woolen counterparts, but also allow you to improve the performance and aesthetic characteristics of the selected product due to the following features:

• Wool and synthetics (polypropylene and polyamide). The inclusion of synthetic components allows you to make the carpet more elastic, but at the same time retain all the properties of natural wool.
• Wool and cotton. Cotton can be the basis of the fabric, sometimes mercerized cotton fiber is added directly to the yarn to make the product more shiny.
• Wool and silk (both natural and viscose). Suitable for creating exclusive, authoring products.

In stores, you can choose a model of the carpet of any desired shape. The most popular are oval and rectangular carpets. Wool carpets for children can have unusual shapes of any kind.

• Palaces-rectangles - the main and most common type of modern wool carpets, which are perfectly suited as an additional accent in any interior.Most often, square woolen carpets will have slight deviations in width or length in one direction or another by a few centimeters, i.e. it will also be a kind of rectangle, although it will look like a square.

• Carpets round shape There are much less rectangular, since not all of the interiors can be correctly and stylishly entered.

• Oval Handmade wool products - one of the rarest due to the greater complexity of implementation. Traditional oval-shaped carpets are made with a central medallion.

Carpet is an important part of the whole room design. With it, you can organize the zoning of the room, create a cozy atmosphere, emphasize the original style, emphasize the important features of the interior. Based on your own wishes, you can always easily find a bedside model or product that will cover the entire floor in the room.

Small in size are considered to be different bedside products, as well as rugs that serve as a stylish decoration for individual areas in the room. Carpets of medium parameters are often a separate element of the decor. The most sought-after size is 2 by 3 meters.There are also products of large sizes. They usually take up virtually the entire space of the room, but it is better that there is at least 10-15 cm from the coating to the walls.

You can also choose thick (long-nap) or thin (short-nap) products depending on your preferences. It is much more difficult to care for products with a long nap, but with them you can not be afraid of even the most severe frost outside the windows of your house.

The natural color of products from high-quality wool can be white or light brown, sometimes with yellow and even gray, and sometimes wool of such colors is chosen for the production of carpets, not coloring them. However, dyes that affect natural carpets are not always safe.

Artificial paints are often used, sometimes mixed with natural ones. Camel and goat fleece is poorly painted, because most of these carpets can be found in natural colors.

In the room, where the furniture is set in soothing pastel colors, the bright carpet will become a rich accent. Fusion style can be represented by not quite natural tones (turquoise) and shapes, fantasy patterns.Popular prints in the form of various birds and animals.

The graphics use stripes and lines, unusual ornaments. Anti-graphics prefers blurry backgrounds, gradient. Especially pay attention to the openwork and vintage products. In addition to calm colors, relevant monochrome wine colors, citrus and mint tones, green and bluish tones.

When choosing a carpet for your home, you need to consider a number of important points:

• The choice of wool. In the shops you can see the floor covering of camel or wool of New Zealand sheep. But when choosing such products it is worth remembering that the wool itself is of both good and poor quality.
• Presence of additives - silk, acrylic, cotton, polyester.
• Mode of production. A hand-made wool product will cost much more than the same product, but of machine production. By the way, the carpet with a relief haircut, which is done by hand, will cost its owner a round sum. If you want to buy a two-sided handmade carpet with folk ornament (the so-called kilim), then you should pay attention to the products from Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Bulgaria.

• The height of the pile. The higher and denser the nap, the more expensive the coating will be, since more wool will be taken to produce it. According to consumer feedback, a high pile carpet usually has higher performance properties.
• The quality of dyes. When painting carpets, you can choose natural and synthetic dyes.
• Carpet treatment antimol and antifungal drugs.

• A country that produces carpets. Iranian and Turkish products will be more expensive, while Indian and Nepalese will be cheaper, machine versions from European and American companies will be more expensive in machine version.
• Parameters of the product. The larger the size, the more significant its cost will be.
• The form. As in the manual form, as well as in the form of machine production, carpets in the form of a circle and an oval, as well as non-standard products, will be more difficult to manufacture and more expensive in cost.

In order to determine that your chosen carpet is made from real wool, and not from synthetic fibers, you need to know everything several basic differences of these materials:

• Singed synthetic fibers smell like plastic and will not crumble between ashes between the fingers, but the wool will have a burning smell and crumble easily in the palms;
• Synthetics can create static electricity and squeak, but the wool will not have such signs;
• Wool fiber will be branched, and synthetic fiber has a holistic structure.

If you properly care for a carpet covering, it will serve for many years without any problems without loss of aesthetic appearance. Natural coatings are difficult to maintain: they can not be used for wet cleaning and brushes with stiff and coarse bristles, and the spots can only be cleaned in the direction of the pile.

To clean the product from wool at home can only be a vacuum cleaner. To clean even a small area of ​​stained carpet, choose spray foam.

At least once a year, carry a product lying on your floor in a dry-cleaner. Special tools and tools will help to qualitatively remove any contamination that is extremely difficult to remove at home.Not bad at least once a year to make the cover on the street and properly beat, you can even in the snow.

If you decide to remove the flooring from a room or house for a while, it must be properly saved. In no case should you send carpets to the attic and basement for safety, because the temperature and humidity levels change there all the time.

The storage space for floor coverings must be perfectly ventilated and have a constant comfortable temperature. It is also worth ensuring that the sun does not fall on the carpets.

The products themselves should be stored only in a pure form. They must be well dried, treated with an anti-molten agent and properly folded. Regardless of the composition, it is recommended to keep wool carpets rolled up in a roll in a horizontal position. The front side of the cover must be inside.

Carpet owners often complain that they strongly "shed". In fact, this process can be quite normal for the product - it is only weak fibers that pour out, and not the nap itself, which is not so bad.

If the carpet is completely new, then after a few weeks the “molt” itself may disappear.If the product continues to “climb” for a very long time, you should change your ways of caring for the flooring.

Remember that invisible insects may first appear in the wool carpet. They can also be the cause of the constant "molting" of the carpet. Another product may lose its own fibers due to incorrect arrangement conditions - for example, near a working heater. Refresh the “faded” carpet color will help a special powder.

A snow-white oval woolen carpet with a long soft nap in a bright bedroom will become not just the main accent of the decor in this room. It will give the bedroom an unusual softness and comfort, which are important for this kind of space.

Beautiful coverings of natural wool with a traditional oriental ornament will be the main decoration of the room, decorated in soothing colors. The drawing should be as motley as possible, but not too catchy, pleasant looking and perfectly fit into the overall style of the room.

More woolen carpets you can see in the next video.