Carpet (rug) From and Old T-shirts
2 Materials
4 Hours
Easy
Don't throw away Your old and destroyed clothes, recylce them into carpet or napkin.
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First You need to create the frame.
Size of frame depends of what You want to do. If You want napkin - You need smal frame, if You want small carpet for bathroom (as in my case), You need at least 1x0,4 meter (3,28x1,31 feet) frame.
Take string, attach to first screw on frame and stretch to the screw on the opposite side of the frame. Do it until there will be no free screws.
What is needed ?
Old t-shirts (more is better).
String
4 pieces of wood and some screws
First You need to create material for weaving from old t-shirts. To do that You can either cut the t-shirts into stripes using scissors, or tear them in Your hands. I recommend second solution. Why ? Because it is easier to tear than to cut and tearing will create smoother stripes without raw edges.
Then You can start weaving. Take one stripe and put it between strings in the loom in such order: over string, under string, over string, under.. etc. If You end with one stripe, take another one and start all over, but in different order than previous one..
That's all - You have made Your's new carpet:)
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Great idea to create a frame! -
Thank you for your tutorial! I loved the sound effects you put in it as well Looking forward to doing this for a lot of my old shirts!
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