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    • Clearance Sale
    • All products
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    • Tufting Machines
    • Finish your rug
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    • Cloth
    • Frames
    • Merch
    • Gift Cards
  • Learn to Tuft 
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    • Online workshops
    • Community
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    • TuftCon 2023
    • Demos & Workshops
    • Speakers
    • Lectures
    • Exhibition
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Artblog

January 21, 2023

Publish date: JANUARY 19, 2023

In this hands-on instructional class, participants will learn to use power tufting machines to create a rug or wall hanging. The 5-hour class will cover the basics of setting up a tufting frame with stretched primary cloth and threading and operating tufting machines. Instructions for how to cut, glue, and finish a tufted piece will also be provided.⁠⁠

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NPR & WHYY

December 22, 2022

Publish date: DECEMBER 22, 2022

If you’ve done a lot of your holiday shopping online, you may feel a little guilty about all the plastic, bubble wrap, packing peanuts, and cardboard packing your purchases. The good news is, there’s a small business in Philadelphia trying to solve the problem of packaging waste.

“Best case, you put it in recycling. Worst case, it just goes in the garbage,” said Tiernan Alexander, co-owner of Tuft the World, a small craft supply company based in Southwest Philly. “So we’ve been always looking for solutions.”

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AIM2Flourish

December 21, 2022

Publish date: DECEMBER 21, 2022

As mentioned on their website: “We believe in people, community, and the health of our planet over profit”. They are adamant about sticking to their mission to make the craft of tufting accessible to a broad audience, while staying true to their values of equity and sustainability. Tuft the World’s business model aims to solve multiple of the UN SDGs, specifically SDG 8 and SDG 12.

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Metropolis

December 15, 2022

Publish date: MARCH 9, 2021

While some credit the inundation of shaggy, graphic rugs to the popularity of the oddly satisfying TikTok videos that document their creation, rug tufting is by no means a new process—after all, humans have been making rugs since the fourth century B.C. While colorful yarn being shot into fabric at high speeds is certainly captivating to watch, the reason behind the resurgence is more about access than aesthetics. Only recently could consumers to get ahold of a common carpet-industry tool: the handheld electric tufting machine (otherwise known as the tufting gun). For that, you can thank Philadelphia-based artist and educator Tim Eads.

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Technical.ly

October 27, 2022

Eads think there’s definitely a maker community in Philly: “Everybody is very open and welcoming, easy to share ideas and resources. It’s really cool to be a part of it.”

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HACKADAY

October 27, 2022

Anyway, while Hackaday taught me what these things looked like and what they did, it wasn’t until I walked through the 2022 Philly Maker Faire that I actually saw one being used and examples of what they are capable of thanks to the folks from Tuft the World.

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The Dieline

July 22, 2022

Designed by Lucy Price and Melissa McFeeters, Tuft the World's packaging is as artful and playful as the tools and materials that the company sells. The color hues, illustrations, and typefaces used throughout truly make the brand come to life and inspire consumers to make the world a more creative and imaginative place.

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WERRRK.com

July 22, 2022

We take to the streets of palm springs to ask what the people want to see in a queen of hearts room and expected the answers with a combo of perverted, interesting, and a man dressed as a banana….. The majority voted for a heart-shaped mirror above the bed to fit the theme. For the mirror idea, we get to visit Tim Ead of Tims’s Tufing projects who creates tufted garments, I’ve never heard of tufting.

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Dazey LA

July 22, 2022

The focal point of this room has to be the hand tufted heart mirror by Tim Eads of Tuft The World that is hanging over the custom heart bed. It brings such a fun element to the room and I am sure it will be a favorite of any guests who stay here. 

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Cover Magazine

July 22, 2022

Many of the new tufters we can see online are followers and clients of artist and Tuft the World founder Tim Eads, who has earned himself the name ‘King Tuft’. 

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Curbed NY

July 27, 2021

Tufting, in many ways, represents a union of many of the different types of artwork that Eads has done over the decades. He grew up on an Angora goat farm in West Texas, and his parents made mohair fibers.

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Gen Z’s DIY Tufted Rug Obsession Spurred by TikTok and COVID

July 27, 2021

If your style leans more toward midcentury modern than anime, you’ll want to check out Tim Eads @tufttheworld, a designer who founded an online community for tufters and started selling tufting guns and yarn back in 2018. TikTokers eager to participate in the new trend often flock to Eads’ website TuftingGun.com to order supplies, get help, and discuss the craft in greater detail than a social media comments section allows.

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