RAGS AND RUGS

Posted on by Julia in Sew and Craft

Rag-rugging is back in fashion!

It’s the ultimate make-do-and-mend, creating rugs from old fabrics.

Rag rugs are newly fashionable as the ultimate eco-friendly use of cast-off clothing and fabric leftovers, but originally they had no such pretensions, they were simply the only way in which the cash-strapped could create a floor covering for otherwise bare boards or stone-flagged cottage floors.In recent years, the craft has been resuscitated and – like many other centuries-old British arts – claimed as an American “heritage” craft. We West Dean ruggers, however, sniffed disdainfully at the US ready-made rug “kits” with their printed canvasses ready for the maker to fill in like a fabric version of Painting by Numbers.

So this week I have been a bit side tracked with a ‘rag rug’ that I have decided to attempt. Lots of scraps of fabric platted together, easy enough ?IMG_20180411_173201

Yup..well I have decided to make a rectangular rug, but it is appearing eiser said than done. This is what it looks like so far xlolx

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So, somehow I will have to adjust it somewhat, maybe I need a frame to work with, as it is getting too heavy to work on my knee.

 

 

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I used to be an Interior Designer, working mainly for IKEA where I traveled the world designing beautiful stores and room sets for them. A little bit about me, My love of sewing and all things crafty started when I was young. I had a lovely Auntie- Auntie Joan and she was so talented and I could not wait for the summer holidays to go to Whitby, where she lived,and to stay with my cousins, for the school holidays. Auntie Joan would have a mound of fabric to sew into teddies or doll clothes, there was paper and paints, always something different. My mum too, was quite crafty, knitting was her go to craft, all by hand - until - she bought a knitting machine ! Oh how we loved the sound of that as we tried to watch tv after school. But I remember trying out different crafts with my mum too, from crochet to basket weaving and everything in between.

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