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offering subdued, affordable products hand made of high-quality natural materials, including particularly certified new wool. Paulig’s woven carpets with black warps and special textures are still quite popular, with the mint green product much in demand at the fair.
Two years ago, handloom was the fair’s ‘rising star’ as the link between hand-made and machine-made car- pets, but there was no longer the same buzz in 2020. Instead, machine weavers garnered much interested with high-density products made with 1 to 3 million knots (see insert). The highly robust handloom prod- ucts made by an Indian manufacturer are also worth mentioning, which are manufactured on jacquard ma- chines, enabling an especially wide variety of colours. •
Machine weaving – high-density fascination
High-density machine weave has become highly popular, with even luxury knotted rug provider Vartian showing a collection at the company’s stand. Increasingly sophisticated weaving technol- ogy, as developed by Stäubli or Vandewiele, for example, has resulted in carpets that are finer and more colourful than was possible before. Woven partly out of viscose, visually the products are able to compete against fine knotted carpets, and most consumers cannot easily distinguish one from the other. Machine-woven carpets are also cheaper, there is greater transparency regarding the origin of the materials and dyes and child labour is ruled out as an issue.
These high-density products afford merchants a significantly wider profit margin than regular prod- ucts of basic-level quality. That’s why Merinos, for example, has invested heavily in its high-quality Anatolian Silk line made of modal. Up to 3 million points are possible at this extremely fine quality level.
Maschinenweb: Faszinierendes in High Density
High-Densitiy-Maschinenwebware boomt und be- geistert; selbst Luxus-Knüpf-Anbieter Vartian hat- te eine entsprechende Kollektion am Stand. Dank der immer ausgefeilteren Webtechnik – entwickelt durch Stäubli oder Vandewiele – lassen sich die Teppiche immer feiner und vielfarbiger gestalten. Die Ergebnisse, teils aus Viskose gewebt, können es optisch durchaus mit feinen Knüpfteppichen aufnehmen, und die meisten Endkunden dürften es schwer haben, das eine vom anderen zu unter- scheiden. Die Maschinenwebteppiche sind dazu günstiger, die Herkunft von Material und Farben lässt sich leichter nachvollziehen, und die Frage nach Kinderarbeit stellt sich erst gar nicht.
Aus Handelssicht bietet die High-Density-Ware deutlich höhere Rendite als die gängigen Ein- stiegsqualitäten. Entsprechend hat beispielsweise Merinos stark in seine Hochwert-Schiene „Anatoli- an Silk“ aus Modal investiert; bis zu 3 Mio. Punkte sind bei dieser extrem feinen Qualität möglich.
CEPC pavilion / CEPC-Gemeinschaftsstände
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