Summary: The carpet’s appearance and durability is based on the type of fibers used for its face yarn during its production. Most of the modern carpets are produced using synthetic fibers (97%), though a few yarns use wool too. In some cases the wool and the acrylic are combined together to make a yarn.

As the synthetic fibers cannot be memorized, because most company’s use their own names to represent their products like Anso® or Trevira®, you may end up getting confused.

To make it simple, it would be wiser to understand that the synthetics can be divided into 4 categories- olefin, polyester, nylon and acrylic. The product specification sheet attached to the carpet will consist of the details of the fiber content.

Synthetic fibers were introduced over 50 years back and always looked good and smooth, however, with time, they have only improved vastly. In the first place, the nylon fiber’s shape was modified by reducing the waste sheen, and later addition of anti-static fiber’s to reduce buildup of static electricity was introduced. Scotchgard(r) Stain Release has been added to bear the stains and soil and a few fibers (DuPont's Stainmaster(r)), with a built in molecular barrier for resistance to soil and stain have been used in the past few years.

This ensures that the carpets do not get stains easily and the spill can remain on the carpet for some time before being removed or leaving a mark.

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