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Commercial Carpet

The majority of carpet today is produced commercially, because the time involved to make a carpet by hand is so large. With or without the use of a loom a single carpet is an investment of months if not years of work. That is why looms were one of the first factory inventions of the industrial revolution. Whether used to make cloth or carpet, the time consuming aspects of weaving can be largely automated.

With the advent of commercially made carpeting, prices started to fall. This meant that carpet was no longer a luxury item only available to the nobility and well off merchant classes. While the industrial revolution did lead to many violations of human rights, it also brought carpet, along with many other items, within reach of more people.

Today industrial mills can churn out over a square mile of carpet in a single day! While the carpets made by these mills are normally not the patterned rugs that you would use in your dining room; they are the carpeting that covers the majority the floor in your homes and businesses.

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