Wire & Pile Height Sculpture

Wire Height mm

Wire Thickness mm

Target Finished Pile Height mm

Height Lost in Finishing %

Loom & Yarn Setting

Pile Rows per Metre rows/m

Pile Ends per Metre (all frames) ends/m

Colour Frames no.

Pile Yarn Count tex

Ground Interlacing Take-up %

Pile Yarn per Square Metre

— g/m²

All pile yarn consumed, surface and buried together

Pile Build-up

Surface Tuft Density: — tufts/m²
Yarn per Surface Tuft: — mm
Surface Pile Weight: — g/m²
Buried Pile Weight: — g/m²
Wire Height for Target: — mm

Frames are assumed to share the surface evenly, which a real design never does — a pattern with a dominant ground colour buries less of that frame and more of the others, so consumption by colour must come from the pattern data rather than from an even split. Planted or semi-worsted Axminster does not carry buried frames at all and the buried figure should be read as zero there. Sculptured effects use several wire heights in one carpet; run the tool once per wire and weight the results by their area share.

Axminster & Wilton Wire Height to Pile Yarn Consumption — free, with the formula and a worked example, at Textile School.