When a wool carpet surpasses its utility, it gets turned into secondary fuel for the cement industry, and the leftover chalk gets used for backing carpet tiles.

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Coloured yarn is tied to the wool web to create the carpet.

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Standing in bright sunlight filtered through the dirty windows of a giant self-storage warehouse in Queens, New York, Kevin Sudeith unfurls one carpet after another, unleashing a cloud of wool fibers and mothball fumes.

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To finish, the sides are sewn, extra wool is burned away to make the designs vivid, and the carpet is given a final cleaning.

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The men then construct the carpet loom - a horizontal frame placed on the ground - while the women convert the wool into yarn on spinning wheels.

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