A process for producing a tufted carpet and a carpet comprising both tufted and untufted portions

摘要

The present invention refers, in general, to a process for manufacturing tufted carpets or rugs, which are used, for instance, as decoration in homes, and also to carpets or rugs produced by this process. Said process comprises the following steps: obtaining a piece of carpeting (6), prior under-finishing, from a roll of carpeting (1) manufactured by a large-scale production machine; removing the tufts (3) from a surface region of the base web (2) of the piece of carpeting (6), said region comprising an outer border region and a central region of said piece of carpeting (6); and retufting said surface region of the base web (2) with tufts (9) of a different nature by using a hand-operated tufting machine. The manufacture of the carpet or rug ends with a starching step which is characterized by placing a base onto the bottom surface (11) of the base web (2), to fix the tufts (3, 9) definitively on the base web (2). A carpet or rug is then obtained that has excellent quality and finish, comparable to any rug made by a semi-artisanal process, but with the advantage of having a much lower manufacturing cost, by virtue of the fact that advantage is taken of large scale production carpeting.