Recent progress and innovation in machinery design is blurring any hard-and-fast boundaries between the performances offered by the various systems of carpet and other soft floorcoverings manufacture. The latest tufting machines, for example, can now achieve patterning effects matching anything weaving can create. Some weaving machines now available can almost equal tufting in terms of speed and output while maintaining their innate patterning versatility. Needlelooms have made significant strides in terms of surface patterning while actually increasing the production speed of the system they use.
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