Fab fibres

Darren Palmer breaks down the benefits of the most common carpet options:

Pure wool Natural, hard-wearing and luxuriously soft underfoot. Wool helps keep your home cool in summer and warm in winter.

Wool-synthetic blend Generally a mix of 80% wool and 20% synthetic fibres. These mixes offer the resilience and durability of a synthetic with the natural appearance and feel of wool.

Wool-bamboo blend Sumptuously soft, sustainable and durable.

Eco Triexta (as used in Godfrey Hirst’s eco+ range) is made using corn sugar. It’s soft, colourfast and stain-resistant and durable. Cavalier Bremworth’s

Siren range is made from recycled synthetics, including ocean plastic.

Nylon Durable, stainresistant and available in a wider range of colours than other carpet types. Solution-dyed nylon is considered the best quality.