Edging A Rag Rug

This also has the added benefit of wearing your hessian away from the inside out lovely.

Edging a rag rug.

Beginning in the middle of a side slide peeled instant binder tape under the rug until only the rolled serged or rope edging shows against the rug. If you want to make an area rug from a carpet remnant or from a swath of broadloom carpet off a roll there are several options for finishing the edges to prevent fraying. Knot 3 strips together at the top then braid the strips crossing the left and right over the middle repeatedly. I made a rag rug with a piece of hessian and strips of fabric looked great when i finished but took months and was so much work i got tennis elbow.

Apply more glue in the groove between the rug fabric and the binder tape edging. Rather it requires that you have a professional do the work with. Sett solutions and binding a denim rag rug after correcting the two threading errors on my second warp on the weaver s delight i planned on weaving a denim rug next. Although i do sometimes sew bias binding around the edge of a rag rug to give it a cleaner edge i never recommend fully backing it.

I fold the fabric around the end of the header as if the binding edge were raw and needed to be enclosed. After a bit of research i found the perfect woven rug that fits all my needs. Then i re read the little house books and read the bit about braided rugs so i looked up how to make them. To braid a rag rug first cut your fabric into strips of equal width.

Turn your rug face up on the work surface. The fabric used for the weft was a polyester double knit so i. This is an easy to follow step by step tutorial of all you need to know thanks to rag rug jedi master jenni stuart anderson. I double my strip of binding fabric so the two raw edges act together and my other raw edge is actually a fold.

I sew it to the header as close as i can get to the rag part of the rug. If you have a few old bedsheets around this is the perfect way to use them and get an adorable rug out of the process. Rag rugging aka progging is an easy rough and ready craft that was handed down by our great grandmothers. The most common choices for carpet finishing are binding serging and fringing.

I wanted to make a kitchen rug for the studio that was. Here s the other side. The loom was warped at 12 epi and set up to weave plain weave. Doing so traps the dust and grit between the rag rugging and the backing fabric which makes it impossible to remove.

That was no problem at all with the rug at the left. A cute b woven and c relatively easy for a first time rug maker. Generally speaking however these aren t techniques you can do yourself.