This is gorgeous! I have so many ideas: throw pillow (one side like this, the other smooth), small purse, I may even use this method to decorate a pair of slides (shoes) I have... just the front. Thank you for making it so simple.
My Auntie and Nana made these rugs for years but very large. I have only made 2 so far and just starting on the 3rd. I've been using their old wooden prodder tools and started suffering very painful cramps in my fingers. Never seen this tool your using !! Definitely going to buy one ❤
Hi!! Tengo esa herramienta y arpillera. Cómo se cortan las telas para hacer la alfombra de trapo? Muchas gracias. Primera vez que veo su canal, me gusta y me suscribí.
Hi, Sally: I love this project (and your channel)! Is there much of a problem with fraying/unraveling with woven fabrics? I assume you don't necessarily cut them on the bias. By the way, we call Hessian cloth Burlap in the USA (and in Canada, too, apparently). In my mother's and grandmothers' stuff, I found some crochet hooks (some with a kind of self-closing flange over the hook) that I'd like to try. So many projects, so little time! Many thanks, Mike
Thank you for your reply, l'd be hopeless at this. I just recognised them, My great aunts still had small ones on their floors in the 70s, they were known as hooky mats. Working class people and very poor people saved rags and old material to make and cover there floors. X
HI Sage I did some at around 2 inches and others around 3! Yes I do usually use a pencil..this rag rugger tool was a christmas present gift it comes from amazon I think!
Is this how the old rag rugs were made rather than hooking? I have seen a mesh used with a hook before. Does the fabric stay in place without looping it together ( if you know what I mean?)
@@irisatkinson1616 thankyou, tying would take a long time. I started my rug. I can only do a small amount at a time now it is growing. As you say it is hard on the hands and wrists. It is strangely relaxing though 😄
@@didsburyartstudio I did buy one of them but I still like my grandmothers old one she used in the 1940's/50's I also use the wooden measure that I was gifted which was in Amazon. You just cut your widths in long pieces, then wrap it around the wooden measure. (sorry do not know the name). Then cut through where the groove is to get even pieces.
This is gorgeous! I have so many ideas: throw pillow (one side like this, the other smooth), small purse, I may even use this method to decorate a pair of slides (shoes) I have... just the front. Thank you for making it so simple.
I am LOVIN your ideas!!!!! especially the slides you must send me a pic over on instagram when you have made some. Would love to see that. thanks
I see you have a Bengal girl as talkative as mine. I just love the way they answer you when you speak. Also good demo of rag rugging too.
ahh thank you....Layla the cat speaks yes!
My Auntie and Nana made these rugs for years but very large. I have only made 2 so far and just starting on the 3rd.
I've been using their old wooden prodder tools and started suffering very painful cramps in my fingers.
Never seen this tool your using !! Definitely going to buy one ❤
oh how exciting that is. Ah yes the tool is a winner! defo try it and and see if it makes a difference. thanks!
I love those subtle colours. Tried this with wool but I'd like to do some with rag strips.
hi Barbara me too! yes I would like to do some with wool too. Glad you like it.
Love the colours of this one, very luxurious 😊. Do you think you could add beading/embellishments on top of these type rugs? Would it work 😊
oooh what a great idea...definitely!
Hi!! Tengo esa herramienta y arpillera. Cómo se cortan las telas para hacer la alfombra de trapo? Muchas gracias. Primera vez que veo su canal, me gusta y me suscribí.
Hello thank you for subscribing. Yes they are cut into strips of fabric you decide the length and then trim them down. Enjoy!
Hi, Sally: I love this project (and your channel)! Is there much of a problem with fraying/unraveling with woven fabrics? I assume you don't necessarily cut them on the bias. By the way, we call Hessian cloth Burlap in the USA (and in Canada, too, apparently). In my mother's and grandmothers' stuff, I found some crochet hooks (some with a kind of self-closing flange over the hook) that I'd like to try. So many projects, so little time! Many thanks, Mike
Thanks Mike satin can fray yes. You can also use this with cotton fabric...
We called it sacking. But we also use the canvas with the holes in.
They were very popular in the north east England late 19th century/early 20th
Ah I will definitely do some more...thanks Bernadette
Thank you for your reply, l'd be hopeless at this. I just recognised them, My great aunts still had small ones on their floors in the 70s, they were known as hooky mats. Working class people and very poor people saved rags and old material to make and cover there floors. X
@@bernadettemurray8260 my relatives made large ones for the lobby etc. Loved beating the dirt from them on a warm, dry spring day 😊
We were from outer London and my Mother and grandmother made them too, just like these unlike the ''crochet'' ones, these were very popular.
What size did you make your strips? You usually use a pencil?
HI Sage I did some at around 2 inches and others around 3! Yes I do usually use a pencil..this rag rugger tool was a christmas present gift it comes from amazon I think!
How do you keep them from coming out?
hi because the lengths are tightly compact they don't come out.
Do you think it would bepossibleto make these rugs with old sweaters? The moths have been!!!!
Hi yes for sure!
Thank you@@didsburyartstudio
Is this how the old rag rugs were made rather than hooking? I have seen a mesh used with a hook before. Does the fabric stay in place without looping it together ( if you know what I mean?)
Yes defo stays in place!
My mother used the mesh, or canvas just after the war. We usually pulled it through to knot it which makeds it secure, but its very hard on the hands.
@@irisatkinson1616 thankyou, tying would take a long time. I started my rug. I can only do a small amount at a time now it is growing. As you say it is hard on the hands and wrists. It is strangely relaxing though 😄
What is rhe name of this tool?
Its called a rag rugger tool.
@@didsburyartstudio I did buy one of them but I still like my grandmothers old one she used in the 1940's/50's I also use the wooden measure that I was gifted which was in Amazon. You just cut your widths in long pieces, then wrap it around the wooden measure. (sorry do not know the name). Then cut through where the groove is to get even pieces.
Let me know if you've used this technique before and what artform you made with it... thanks for watching!
I was born in Devon lived in orkney made rag rugs or my life.... this is not a rag rug .
Hello! tell me more shaggy rag rug?🤔