Follow these step-by-step illustrations for how to make a braided rag rug. Here’s an attractive, old-fashioned floor cover that barely requires sewing! Handmade braided rugs, braided the way ...

Braided rag rugs have been around for centuries ... get it anyway! You can sew the cut strips end-to-end to make one long one, and it’ll add a lovely vibrance to the carpet you’re creating.

The crocheting and braiding methods require some technical knowledge (like the ability to crochet or sew), but you can easily learn to weave a rag rug with no prior experience. By creating a basic ...

Besides being easy to make and care for, the rugs are fabricated from goods from the rag bag. With animals inside and outside our homestead, a steady flow of boot traffic and abundance of rain ...

Her own daughter had no interest in learning, and she didn’t want to die without knowing the crocheted rag rug-making craft would ... so it will lay flat. Then sew the ends together (where ...

So when my childhood friend Muriel Ann Glitzengelder invited me to join her in learning to make rag rugs on a loom, I enthusiastically agreed. Sign me up! When do we start? (Do we actually know ...

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