These guns punch yarn through cloth and make the process of creating a rug easy and quick. Don't be surprised if you're mesmerized by videos of tufting gun use on Instagram , Tik Tok , and YouTube .

But then she started making rugs and invested in a tufting gun. “It was kind of a risk because I didn't have a job and I was spending all this money on the gun,” Leon said.

Tufting On TikTok, 'Renegade' Rug Makers Create Community With industrial metal tufting guns, fiber artists can make colorful, textured designs — Pokémon characters, candy wrappers, portraiture ...

The Providence artist opened TuftxPVD, Rhode Island’s first Black-owned rug tufting studio, a few years ago. “Tufting is a modern spin on traditional rug-making,” Hazard-Chaney explained.

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 ...