Carpet Dye

Today floor covering is considered as fashion and vital part of every home's interior. Carpet covers our floors and adds the elements of comfort, style and luxury. Colour is also one of the most important aspects of floor covering decision. Today there is a large array of floor covering colours available in the market. Two or three decades ago, there were just green, blue and earth tone colours available for floor covering. But today there are some more colour patterns available to choose from. There are peach, salmon, cherry, wine, spruce, jade, mushroom, vanilla, sapphire, emerald, pewter, ruby or clay colours available in floor covering. You can even have your carpet custom dyed to match that special piece of furniture. But for that you may have to pay some extra money.

When you get to choose a carpet, then you must use common sense to select colour according to your living space. Lighter colors will show more dirt despite the most advanced stain resistant technology. Darker colors hide lots of soil, but do require frequent vacuuming to keep the carpet fluffy and fresh from being noticed. If you have a room that you want to make look bigger, then lighter color is a must.

Color is your reflection actually. It tells others what kind of person you are. For example, blues, grays, mauves, black, jewel tones, and white are colors most often used by people who are very oriented, and like order and neatness. While earth tones, oranges, red, rusts, gold, olive greens, and other warm colors are used more often by those people who are more casual, less stressed, artistic, and more generous.

Dyeing is basically a process of colouring some material. A carpet is dyed at probably two stages during manufacturing process. Following are the most common methods of carpet.

Pre-Dyed Methods:

- Solution dyeing: Adding a pigment to the melted polymer before extrusion. It is the most colorfast system used today.
- Stock dyeing: Dyeing fibers in staple form before spun into yarns.
- Yarn dyeing: Yarns are dyed before woven or tufted into fabric.

Post-Dyed Methods:

- Continuous dyeing: This is a very popular method for residential carpets. Fabric goes through a dye system without interruption and can be of one color or multi-colored.
- Beck or batch dyeing: Sections of carpet are inserted in a heated vat and allowed to absorb dyes.
- Print dyeing: As the name implies, a printed pattern is sprayed or rolled onto the carpet face. You can easily identify this by opening yarn tufts and viewing the yarn shaft. This dye method is used often with hospitality and restaurant carpets.