Carpet

SISAL CARPET

This is cheap carpet and quite hard wearing, woven from a spun cord product, which has a coarse feel underfoot. To enhance its durability carpet underlay is recommended. The tighter the carpet weave, the better the quality.

SHAG PILE

This is a loosely woven carpet with a long cut pile, quite popular in the 1970's. Used often as a decorative carpet, as it has a long coarse (messy) look that is not practical for a whole house, especially high traffic areas and stairs. It has come back into fashion for those who dare to go for something exotic!

BERBER CARPET

Originating from North Africa, the process is of hand spun, undyed wool yarn hand weaving. It has been imitated on a commercial basis and now the name Berber provides a homespun natural feel and coloured carpet.

SAXONY

This carpet has a shorter pile and closer weave than shag pile. It is a dense cut pile carpet with heavily treated yarns, ensuring that each tuft of yarn can be seen.

VELOUR

This carpet has a velvet like surface texture that is produced by having a uniformly cut pile.

PLUSH

This carpet has a cut pile that has the entire tuft ends blended together to provide an even finish.

LOOP PILE CARPET

The carpet yarn is left in a loop that can be very durable and hard wearing, depending on the density and size of the loops.

CUT PILE

The loops are cut, giving the carpet a velvet or plush look - (it is also known as plush pile or velvet pile carpet.)

TWIST PILE

This is a type of cut pile carpet. The yarn can also be twisted tighter before manufacture to give a rugged look called 'hard twist'.

CUT AND LOOP PILE

This is a mixture of cut and loop pile in the one carpet.



CARPET REMNANTS

You can often buy a range of quality carpet remnants at bargain prices. Carpet remnants are end of roll pieces which can come in a range of sizes, colours and carpet types.

Carpeting for your home comes in a variety of carpet colours and carpet designs, it is always useful to get swatches of carpet and see what they look like in your room / home before you bulk buy carpet.

The Carpet Australia page should provide you with an excellent starting point in finding the ideal carpet for you at your ideal carpet price. The Internet offers the best opportunity for finding the cheapest carpet of the best carpet for your specific needs. You should check as many sites as you can that offer the type of carpet that you are after and then work out the best price carpet from that list.

Good luck with finding the ideal style of carpet for your home for the best possible price.