1.   Use underlay under woven carpet, or jute-backed tufted carpet.

2.   The main imports are synthetic tufted carpets, mainly from North America but increasingly from EC countries -- Belgium followed by Western Germany and Holland.

3.   The more popular types of tufted carpets are not manufactured.

4.   Hollytex makes tufted broadloom carpet and rugs for residential and commercial use at mills in Oklahoma.

5.   In general, tufted carpets are less expensive than woven ones, but they are not as durable.

6.   Tufted carpets look like woven carpets, but their construction is quite different.

7.   Tufted carpets are made by high-speed machines that insert loops of the face fiber in a ready-made back.

8.   Tufted carpets can be cut in any direction, and they do not need binding along the edges.