the carpet the embossed surface selectively elevates selected portions of carpet relative to unselected portions so that a design corresponding to the design of the embossed surface is inversely cut into the carpet application_number US 96283404 A description accordingly fig1 shows a portion of a prior art tip shearing mill 10 having a cutter 12 and a smooth roller 14 as carpet 16 is passed intermediate the cutter 12 and the roller 14 the tips 16 or ends are sheared to a uniform height as measured from the smooth cylindrical exterior surface 17 of the roller 14 as shown in fig1 a high pile 18 height has been tufted to create a cross pattern which extends a distance above the lower pile 20 after shearing the high pile loops will be cut but preferably not down as far as the top of the low pile 20 this is known in the art to create a pattern however a disadvantage of this process is that the sheared or cut pile design formerly high pile 20 is not as durable as the lower loops thus some designs have been found to wear disproportionately faster than the rest of the carpet since they bear the traffic as they extend a distance above the lower pile height fig2 shows a tip shearing mill 30 of the preferred embodiment the mill includes a shearing apparatus such as a cutter 32 and an embossed surface 34 on a roller 36 the embossed surface 34 is shown attached to the roller 36 and having three distinct designs 38 40 42 but as shown in and described relative to fig5 other embossed surfaces may be utilized with or without.