Method 1 method 2 and ghiordes knot technique.
Short history of rug making.
April 9 2018 general by dan burk.
Mar 10 2013 posted by mbageless.
Rag rugs or rag mats are hardwearing rugs made out of rags cut into strips and pushed or pulled through a hessian backing.
Who possessed both an abundance of rug making material and a need to combat the harshness of climate and rain.
The term carpet comes from old french carpite one derivation of the term states that the french term came from the old italian carpita from the verb carpire meaning to pluck.
The art of rug making reaches back into pre history.
Although the methods are well preserved the actual history of rag rugs is a little vague in places.
The majority of pieces available today at dealers auctions antique shops department stores and even museums are mostly products of the 19th and 20th century.
Two sizes of latch hook compared.
Of necessity early colonists from europe recycled yarn and fabric into hooked rugs to furnish their homes.
Many of the variations on the latch hook are based on method 1 personally i prefer method 2 which i find less fiddly.
Whether the first rugs were made in the near east or siberia is not clear.
Latch hook methods 1 and 2 produce a smyrna knot.
Many centuries ago shepherds began knotting wool into heavy woven cloth.
It was first made to cover the animals and was also used as a blanket and then to cover the floor.
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These heavy cloths provided protection from the elements and eventually were developed into rugs.
These heavy cloths were developed into rugs that provided protection from the elements.
There are two kinds of mat known in the north east as hooky and proggy mats.
A rug is a piece of cloth similar to a carpet but it does not span the width of a room and is not attached to the floor it is generally used as a floor covering or as a decorative feature rug making is the process of crafting a rug from various textile materials historically there has been a variety of methods of rug making including braiding hooking and weaving.
Most rug making histories on the web are americentric and will tell you about rug hooking being popular in north america for more than 200 years.
But over the centuries.
A brief history of rug making.
Whilst we adapt to modern day and the trend for recycling up cycling and all the yclings rag rug making in the past was a thrifty way to re purpose old cloth from mostly woollen clothes.
The online etymology dictionary states that the term carpet was first used in english in the late 13th century with the meaning coarse cloth and by the mid 14th century tablecloth or bedspread.
Whether the first rugs were made in the near east or siberia is not clear but it is clear that over the.
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