Servo motor driven scroll pattern attachments for tufting machine with computerized design system and methods of tufting

A method of creating and tufting a carpet pattern comprising the steps of:

• selecting pattern parameters of width, length, a relatively high pile height and a relatively low pile length, for stitches on a computer display;
• creating a border pattern for at least one border to surround a central image;
• scanning an image to create a digital image;
• processing the digital image by a computer to calculate corresponding yarn heights and yarn feed increments for a plurality of colors of yarns in a carpet pattern to create pattern information;
• inputting the pattern information into a master controller of a multi-needle tufting machine;
• threading yarn ends of said plurality of colors of yarns from a yarn supply through a yarn drive array to a plurality of laterally spaced needles;
• reciprocating the plurality of laterally spaced needles threaded with said plurality of yarns through a backing fabric fed longitudinally from front to back through the tufting machine;
• sending information relative to the position of the plurality of needles to the master controller;
• the main controller sending information relative to the amount of yarn to be fed for the next stitch to the yarn drive array;
• operating a looper mechanism in synchronized cooperation with the plurality of needles to seize loops of yarn tufted through the backing fabric;
• thereby forming a tufted carpet having:
• a top surface on the backing fabric, a bottom surface and an outer perimeter encompassing a center portion;
• a first border surrounding the center portion comprising a first plurality of bights on the outer perimeter of the top surface of the backing fabric;
• wherein the plurality of bights comprising said first border is formed by feeding stitches of yarn in at least three distinct increments of length.