Braiding Rugs: A Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-03
Language: English
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0882661779
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Braided rugs are like family quilts – each strip of cloth comes from a cast-off garment and tells a story all its own. Piecing the rug together is an act of weaving family memories into a useful heirloom you'll treasure forever. Nancy Bubel covers every step of the simple process, from planning the perfect size, shape, and color scheme to cutting your cloth strips, braiding them together, and finishing off your rug.
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Person involved. Looking at the orderly handiwork in that rug was to her like leafing through a photograph album. Each piece of cloth had its story, some humorous, some sad, with the sadness softened by the years. Braiding rugs is an ideal hobby for men and women. There are no expensive lessons on how to braid. It is good for idle moments, and even five or ten minutes can be productive time. You have an opportunity to show your artistic talents in combining colors in intriguing patterns. You.
Facing, line up the newly cut edges at right angles and sew them firmly together, using either a tight machine stitch or a back-hand stitch by hand. Use double thread, preferably heavy-duty, for hand stitching. It isn’t necessary to match the thread color to the wool exactly, but avoid, for example, black thread to piece a very light colored strip. Color Options In planning the color scheme of your rug, you have several options. 1. Hit-or-miss, the method used in most very old rugs,.
Procedure that follows has been used for many years with excellent results. Start here, at any rate, and work out your own variations as you gain experience. Start the braid by folding each of three strips—good side out—in fourths. To do this, fold each side in to the center and then crease the resulting double strip of fabric along its imaginary center line, bringing both outer folded sides together, and forming a four-layer strip or tube of fabric. The strips will not hold this folded position.
Some tension on it in order to get an even braid. Pin, tie or clamp it—or close a window or drawer on the end of the braid—so that you can pull on it gently as you work. This will help to keep it straight and even. Braid about two or three yards before beginning to lace the rug together. For a hit-or-miss rug in which color planning is not critical, you could let your braid accumulate a bit longer, but not too long, or it will be tangled and unruly when you try to form the rug. In a highly.
Of time and the rug can even be used and admired as it grows. Since there is no elaborate frame or equipment to set up, rug braiding makes good pick-up work. There will never be another rug quite like the one you create, from your own findings, for your own home. As a cottage industry, producing braided rugs allows you to keep the homestead fires going, collect the eggs and weed the garden, while working on your craft at your own hours and your own pace. The rugs are in demand in many craft,.