Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s daughter Sara Tendulkar has found a new hobby, and it is unlike anything we have seen before. Sharing snippets of a day out where she tufted a rug with her best friend, the youth icon walked us through the process of crafting a paw-shaped carpet — captioning her Instagram post : “Feeling paw-sitively cosy on this rug.”

What is tufting?

Tufting is a manufacturing technique used to provide a textile surface with a pile. Think of it as a cross between sewing and embroidery. It is the most commonly used manufacturing technique for carpets, high-quality interior fittings for cars or aircraft and artificial turf.

This carpet-making technique uses a special tufting gun, which shoots loops of yarn through the mesh fabric, allowing for the creation of f

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