The best information and understandable explanation I've heard and I've heard many ,thank you!

Oh man, I just bought a hand-tufted rug online. I have only had hand-tufted wool rugs (purchased from Home Depot, so we're not talking handmade anything). They wore like iron. I was able to use my vacuum with the beater, as well as the carpet shampooer, again, with the beater. Those rugs had open tufts, whereas the one I just bought has loops on the face. Perhaps therein lies the problem. Those loops can get caught in things. When they pull out, they leave a run like pantyhose. I yanked on one or two of the loops and was horrified. The rug is gorgeous, but I don't feel like babying a rug or replacing it in two years. That's why I paid for wool in the first place. Sigh. Live and learn.

That's a nice explanation- thank you for posting this. I would like to point out that the lesser qualities of a hand tufted rug are borne from overseas manufacturers: India and China, to name a couple, because of the quality of materials.

Thanks for the video, fellow cleaner here in MN and I picked up a rug from a consignment shop for dirt cheap, pretty high knot count at around 391. No tag but the fringe and face yarns burned like cotton. Honestly I got the rug to practice cleaning on so I am not too worried about ruining it however it seems like a very nice rug. Have you any experience cleaning cotton/rayon type rugs? Could I use a cotton fabric shampoo in the rug pit? Thanks again.

I have tibetan hand knotted rugs . Please inform

hello sir this nice rugs do you have antiaqe carpets work rapair I rapair man

So, tufted rugs are hard to clean and they wear out quickly. That makes them made to replace. Why bother.