How do you make a rag rug?
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Need a base, either an old sac or the rug making fabric you can buy.
Then use strips of fabric and a rug making hook. Look on Pinterest for ideas.
Tear rags into strips. Sew the strips together, end to end. Braid the strips. Coil the braid into a circle or oval, hand sewing each braid coil to the next one. When it's the size you desire, attach non-skip strips to the side that will lie on the floor.
My 3rd Great Grandmother used to WEAVE rugs...She used whatever fabric she could acquire back in her day [1800's]; she'd tear the fabric in strips & beginning at the center would lay strips across in the center like spokes, then started weaving in her colors-overlapping strips as she wove them in [NEVER sewed them at all]. As she wove near the ends of the center strips she'd add new strips to continue on until she reached the size she wanted & finished off the edges by weaving in the ends. When she had the fabric used up, she'd canoe into Seattle & walk the streets selling her rugs. NOW THAT IS HISTORY!
Thank you so much for sharing
there's a method called woven braided rag rug, too. Can find several versions on You Tube. It uses strips of fabric "braided", then as its braided, you weave the working-strip into the previous row of braids....no sewing it together. Even the joining of the strips is easy (no sew). Looks so much like old style braided rugs.
Look on "youtube". There are a lot of videos about it.