AKTU Carpet Manufacture (BCT503) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech 3rd Year

Course Objectives

A comprehensive understanding of various types of handmade and machine made carpets, their manufacturing processes and quality control measures.

Classification of hand made carpets and brief description of each type. Yarn used in hand made carpet.

Brief introduction of hand made carpet sector of India and abroad. Carpet export proceedings and process control of hand made carpet sector.

Designing of hand made carpet- brief introduction of CAD for carpet.

Hand Knotted Carpet:

Terms and definitions, Persian, Turkish, tibetan and other type of knot structure and its quality parameters.

Manufacturing of various hand knotted carpets - Preparatory process, tools and equipments used for Persian, Tibetan, shaggy carpets.

Washing and other mechanical finishing for hand knotted carpets.

Hand made dhurry:

Techniques , Quality and other process parameter of Hand made flat carpet on horizontal / Vertical loom frame viz. panja dhurry, Shoumak , Chindi dhurry and other fancy products.

Defects in hand knotted carpets and their remedies.

Hand loom Carpets:

Flat carpet making – quality parameters, jacquard dhurry making and its finishing.

Pile carpet making - Preparatory process and weaving techniques for plain and Jacquard loom pile carpet.

Tufted Carpets:

Structure of tufted carpet, backing cloth and quality parameters.

Hand tufting process - Preparatory process, tools and equipments , tufting frame, manual / electric hand tufting gun Backing of hand made carpet, Natural latex, synthetic resin and its composition of backing solution for hand made carpet.

Finishing of hand tufted carpet.

Defects in hand made carpets and their remedies.

Introduction to machine made carpet.Brief introduction to Broad loom woven,tufted carpets and other types of carpet machines.

Reference Books

1. Advances in Carpet Manufacture by K. K. Goswami, Woodhead Publishing
2. Journals & Magazines 3. Carpet-e-World
3. Carpet Manufacture by Crawshaw
4. Tufted Carpet by Von Moody
5. Process control in carpet manufacturing by K KGoswami, Abhishek Publishing, Chandigarh, India.

Course Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to

1. List different types of carpets, create designing of carpets through CAD, understand terms used in the manufacture and procedures involved in the export of carpets
2. Analyze the difference between different types of knots, explain tools and equipments used in all types of manufacture, preparatory process, washing and finishing of carpets and defects in the carpet
3. Demonstrate the preparatory process, quality parameters, and manufacturing of handloom carpets
4. Differentiate between the manufacture of hand tufted carpets with knotted carpets , finishing of tufted carpets with different types of latex, defects and remedies
5. Classify and understand the machine made carpets