Carpet Glossary N
| nap | Carpet or rug pile surface. |
| needle | (1) Jacquard loom - Has horizontal wires, rods, or plungers. The forward and backward movement is controlled by the pattern punch cards. One end is placed into a needle board and the ends extend slightly beyond the board surface. The other end projects into a leveling board, padder, needle box or spring box. The forward and backward movements position the lash cord knots to be picked up by the lash board, lifting board or comberboard, or the hooks to be picked by the griff or remain in the grate. (2) Axminster loom - Refers to metal rod used to insert a shot of filling yarn. (3) Knitting - The hooks that make the loops. (4) Tufting - The needle with an eye used to punch the pile yarn through the backing material. |
| needle bar | Tufting machine part that holds the needles and carries them up and down. |
| needlepunching | Layers or batts of loose fiber are needled into a core, or scrim, fabric to form a felted or flat textured material. A needlepunched fabric can be embossed, printed, laminated to a cushion, or otherwise finished. |
| non-woven | A fabric made up of a web of fibers held together by a chemical or fibrous bonding agent. |
| nosing | The front dividing line of a step, where the top of a riser joins the front of a tread. |
| nylon | Synthetic thermoplastic of the polyamide family. It may be melt extruded into filaments useful for carpet yarn. Nylon is by far the dominant fiber in tufted carpet pile yarns. Two chemical types, nylon 6,6 and nylon 6 are used in carpet. Nylon 6,6 is poly (hexamethyleneadipamide) and nylon 6 is polycaprolactam. ANSO, ANSO IV, and ANSO IV HP are Nylon 6. |
Did you know?
There is a clear-cut procedure for filling a carpet claim. Each participant has responsibilities to ensure that the carpet claim process is handled to everyone's satisfaction. The filing a carpet claim section of the Carpet Buyers Handbook examines the relationship between the carpet retailer, discount carpet wholesaler, carpet distributor, carpet installer, carpet manufacturer, and the consumer. It includes carpet manufacturing defects, visible carpet defects, carpet color, carpet dye lot, second quality carpet , carpet irregulars, mill end, carpet remnants, carpet warranties, carpet mill inspection, concealed damage, carrier claim, CRI 104, CRI 105, improper carpet care, water damage, backing material, carpet padding failure, cushion failure, topical treatments independents, independent inspector. Always preserve about 1 square foot piece of the original uninstalled carpet. Some manufacturing defect analysis only can be performed on unused (untrafficked) carpet. Also, should the carpet fail (which is rare), it is helpful to evaluate a new piece versus a sample that has been trafficked.
