Millstek for Hand Tufted equipment, tools and materials for producing area rugs, carpets, wall hangings and bath mats

Tufting Tools, Equipment and Materials

Home	Millstek specialises in Hand Tufting (handtufting) equipment for area rugs, carpets and wall hangings from manufacturers in Germany and Sweden.
Hofmann	Hofmann Handtuft Technique GmbH have been providing hand-tufting, shearing and carving equipment to carpet, area rugs and wall hanging makers for twenty years.
Münsinger	Münsinger GmbH specialise in shearing equipment for carpets and bath mats with equipment ranging from hand held machines to semi automatic and custom built machines. Machines for bevelling of carpet tiles and carpet samples.
Hitex	Hitex AB a long standing handtufting rug and carpet manufacturer now make available their in house designed "Robotic" Tufting Machine.
Technique	This page describes the process in using the Hofmann Handtufting Gun to make hand tufted carpets, area rugs and wall hangings.
Tufting Machines	A range of machines for producing cut and loop pile tufted bath mats, rugs, mops and candlewick products.
Overlocking and Fringing Machines	Machines for binding the edges of carpets, rugs, samples and bath mats. Machines for applying Cut and Uncut fringes to carpets, rugs, blankets and shawls.
Tufting Supplies	Materials used in hand-tufting including Latex, Primary and Secondary backing fabrics, along with suppliers of carpets yarns
Photos	This page shows a few photographs of rugs manufactured by Hofmann's customers using the Hand Tufting method.
Links	This section is a list of colleges and universities that offer training and education in design and manufacture of hand-tufted products using the Hofmann Handtuft Technique and producers who use tufting, shearing or carving equipment..
Contact	Contact details for Millstek - UK and Irish agent for Hofmann-Handtuft Technik GmbH, Münsinger GmbH and Hitex AB..

	Millstek is a UK company that supplies equipment used in making area rugs, carpets, wall hangings, and bath mats. The Hofmann Hand-Tufting gun VML 16 can produce area rugs with both cut and loop pile. The same tufting gun is used in the Hitex Robotic Tufting machine. Shearing and carving equipment is provided by Münsinger. Carving and sculpting of area rugs and carpets give the product a third dimension and plain carpets can be made very attractive by skilled carving. Bevelling of carpet tiles and carpet samples on table machines. Flexorand offer their carpet edge binding machine and materials for the rapid binding of carpet and rug edges. In addition to providing equipment, Millstek supply backing fabric and Latex for the construction of hand tufted (handtufting) carpets and rugs. Also Millstek provide a maintenance service for the tufting guns and shearers provided. In addition to the hand-tufting products, table tufting, binding, whipping or overedging equipment is offered from David Almond. Also carpet fringing equipment is included in the product range offered by David Almond Venor range. The companies represented are:- Hofmann Handtuft Technik of Germany Münsinger of Germany Flexorand GmbH of Germany Hitex Robot Handtuft of Sweden David Almond Ltd of England Howard Mills t/a Millstek contact