The Craftphilia Blog

Guides, tutorials and updates for anyone making rugs — from choosing your first setup to getting more out of the one you have.

Buying Guides

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Various sizes of finished tufted projects

How to Choose the Right Tufting Machine Size

CF05 or CF07? Three things decide it, in this order: the table you'll put the machine on, the width you'll...
Maker holding up a tufted parrot piece beside a Craftphilia tufting machine

The Complete Guide to Automated Tufting Machines

How automated tufting machines work, what changes when the tufting runs itself, and how to choose between the CF05 and...
A tufting gun and an automated tufting machine side by side in a home studio

Tufting Gun vs Automated Tufting Machine: Which Should You Buy?

Which one fits depends on what you want to make and how often you want to make it. A full comparison...

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Craftphilia Kickstarter update: 651 backers and US$529,306 pledged

Craftphilia Kickstarter Update: 651 Backers, $529,306, and What's Next

The campaign closed on 16 July at 5,262% of goal — 651 backers, US$529,306. What backers asked us, the five...

Tufting Guides

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Deeply carved V-shaped grooves on a geometric tufted rug

How to Carve Clean Edges in a Tufted Rug

Pile has no edge of its own, so a sharp boundary is a shadow rather than a line. Where to...
Craftphilia Studio with flower design next to an tufting machine

Can you use Craftphilia Studio if you don't own a Craftphilia machine?

Craftphilia Studio is free tufting software that turns images into tuftable patterns, with colour separation, AI generation, and full path...
A freshly tufted rug still stretched on the frame, ready for finishing

What Is Rug Finishing? The Step Nobody Tells Beginners About

The last stitch goes in and the rug looks finished. It isn't — it's yarn sitting loose in a piece...