Chinese tufting vocabulary
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- Collection
- Tuft the World research brief: The Non-English Record
- Themes
- Global diffusion of tufting, Hand-tufting tools & the gun
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簇绒 tufting (generic) · 簇绒机 industrial tufting machine · 簇绒枪 tufting gun (HK/Cantonese) · 枪刺/刺枪 "gun-stab", the everyday trade word for hand-tufting · 手工枪刺地毯 hand gun-tufted carpet · 手工打结 hand-knotted · 机织 machine-woven (威尔顿 Wilton, 阿克明斯特 Axminster) · 针刺 needle-punched · 栽绒 "planted pile" (old term for knotted pile) · 地毯/地氈 mainland/HK forms · 戳戳绣/戳戳秀 "poke-poke", the social-media hobby name. Citation check (Oct 2026, from search results; pages not opened): partly confirmed. Most terms are attested. Notes: (1) The national-standard term is 手工枪刺胶背地毯 (GB/T 27729-2011), with 手工枪刺地毯 as the short form. (2) 簇绒枪 is not HK/Cantonese-specific: it is standard mainland usage too, and the HK traditional form is 簇絨槍. (3) 'Gun-stab' is literal; 枪刺 / 刺枪 is attested in trade blogs, but I could not verify that it is 'more common than 手工簇绒'. (4) 栽绒 is attested (手工栽绒地毯), though mainly for hand-knotted pile, not only as an 'old/archaeological' term. (5) Both 戳戳秀 and 戳戳绣 are used in 2022 mainland press, and 戳戳秀 is also a registered brand (锦州润合工艺美术品有限公司). (6) In HK, 地氈 is the written form. Also: https://www.tianjiangcarpet.com/news/2017-11-02/217.html · https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%89%8B%E5%B7%A5%E6%A0%BD%E7%BB%92%E5%9C%B0%E6%AF%AF/1835914 · https://epaper.oeeee.com/epaper/G/html/2022-11/14/content_27066.htm · https://www.baiqiang.cn/pinpai/chuochuoxiu/