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Make rag rug using hessian.
The main difference is in the designs colours and fabrics that are used.
The hessian decided how big you want to make your rug and mark it out in chalk then cut your hessian 4 5 inches bigger as we need to allow room for hemming fraying.
Bringing rag rugging up to date.
Cut your chosen fabrics into strips about 2 cm wide or so for this one.
So now i m going to try a braided rug.
I like to make things to give to people for a surprise if what i ve made turns out good.
Should you follow a design for a hessian sack rug.
It s part of a sack but if you can t get hold of sacks you can buy it by the metre from craft shops etc.
Make them as long as you can but any length will do and they don t alll have to be the same length.
Thanks for the tutorial.
This is the hessian i am using for this rug.
In wales we used to call this a nain rug as your nain or nan would know how to make them.
Cutting your fabric we need to cut our material into small pieces an idea size is about 4cm 1 5 by 7 5cm 3.
If you wish to produce a neater pattern you will see from the video another type of rag rug i have produced.
Nowadays rag rug making remains largely unchanged as we still only use a few basic tools hessian and fabric.
Our ragged life rug hessian consists of 100 x 60cm rectangle of hessian that has been hemmed i e.
I ve tried the rag rugs using a loom and can t get them to lay flat.