When a hand tufted rug is initially tufted, there tends to be a few long ends that have shot through during the tufting process.
When the rugs has been backed and taken down, these long ends need to
be cropped or sheared off.
This is usually done with a hand held cropping
machine, much like a lawn mower.
This machine takes off all the unwanted long
ends and removes them to a vacuum cleaner which is attached separately to the
cropper.
You can see here how the shearing machine gives the rug its final
smooth and even finish.
