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Encyclopedia > Rug making
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Rug making is an ancient craft, and covers a variety of techniques. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Rug making. ...

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Braided

Braided rugs are made by sewing many little strips of cloth together into longer strips. The long strips are then braided together, sewn at the ends, coiled around in a circular or oval pattern, and sewn together at the edges to hold it in its circular pattern.


Hooking

Traditional rug hooking is a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, rug warp or monks cloth. The loops are pulled through the backing material by using a crochet-type hook mounted in a handle (usually wood) for leverage. Traditional rug hooking is a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, or rug warp. ... Yarn. ... Fabric may mean: Cloth, a flexible artificial material made up of a network of natural or artificial fibres Fabric (club), a London dance club Fibre Channel fabric, a network of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch using the FC-SW topology This is a disambiguation page, a... Burlap is a densely woven fabric, usually made of jute and allied vegetable fibers. ... Torn linen cloth, recovered from the Dead Sea Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax (and historically, cannabis) plant. ... Crochet Hooks The word crochet is derived from the Middle French word croc or croche, meaning It describes the process of creating fabric from a length of cord, yarn, or thread with a Crochet hook. ...


Rag Rugs

Rag rugs were commonly made in households up to the middle of the 20th century by using odd scraps of fabric on a background of old sacking.


Needlepunch

Using either yarn or strips of cloth, you work with the punch tool from the back side of the pattern. The Monk’s cloth backing is tightly stretched on to a frame. Every time you punch the needle down through the backing, it makes a long thread on the right side of the rug. Then, as you lift the needle, it automatically makes it into a loop. These loops pack together to create a rug so solid that chewing dogs and clawing cats are its only enemy. As long as you use the tool correctly, it will automatically make all the loops the same length.


Sometimes referred to as "speed hooking", this method of rug hooking is loved for its ease and speed. One student described it as "instant gratification with wool."


Prodded

Proddy rugs are made, as the name implies, by prodding or poking strips of fabric through burlap or linen from the back side. Rag rugs made this way have many names; clippies, proddies, stobbies, pricked, and in Scotland they are called clootie mats. They were often made for more utilitarian use such as by the backdoor; their pile hiding dirt well.


Woven

See carpet. Woven rugs include both flat rugs (for example kilims) and pile rugs. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Rug making. ... A Kilim (or Kelim) (or berr in Kurdish), is a flatwoven rug, taking its name from the Turkish word for prayer rug. ...


Yarn Sewn


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Rug making - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (392 words)
Traditional rug hooking is a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, rug warp or monks cloth.
Rag Rugs== Rag rugs were commonly made in households up to the middle of the 20th century by using odd scraps of fabric on a background of old sacking.
Proddy rugs are made, as the name implies, by prodding or poking strips of fabric through burlap or linen from the back side.
Rug Making (2086 words)
Rug hooking was a popular craft in England, Scotland, Scandanavia, Spain, Northern Ireland, and Wales, and when these people left their ancestral homes and travelled to America they brought the craft with them.
Rugs may be classified as traditional or primitive with most of the early rugs falling into the latter category.
Rug hooking increased in popularity during the 1860's, and continued after the war although in the war-torn South it is very unlikely women would have had the luxury of cutting fabric into strips for hooked rugs.
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