PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Savaree Hazard-Chaney is making history in the capital city. The Providence artist opened TuftxPVD, Rhode Island’s first Black-owned rug tufting studio, a few years ago.

Increasingly modern adaptations of tufted home furnishings are transforming a formerly fussy upholstery style into a look designers are describing as transitional, contemporary and even modern.

The Plaque Sweeper, like many recent brushes, has a single, taller tuft of bristles at the tip of its head to clean “hard-to-reach back teeth.” This tuft did not help me reach my back teeth—at least ...

"Carnivalesque," by Cathy LeVitre, on display at Pile Paragons, an exhibition of tufted artwork curated by Qualesha Wood, for TuftCon ’23. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) A new convention is coming to ...

SEATTLE — An old art form is having a renaissance in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. Tuft Ruft teaches students how to design and create custom rugs using yarn and a tufting gun. "We get excited waking up ...

Often used to make rugs, tufting is a process wherein a hollow needle is used to cram thread or yarn into fabric in some kind of pattern. This can be done by hand, with a gun, or with big machines.

Furniture styles come and go. But tufted furniture has staying power. Who could forget the overstuffed Chesterfield sofa or the red velvet Victorian settee? Tufting is more popular today than ever.