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Author: Diana Blake Gray
Publisher: Rafter-Four Designs
Published: 2004-11-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781931426282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to treat wooden frames as a unique tool for creating an amazing variety of rag rugs. Over forty techniques, most for the first time in print. Nearly 300 black and white photographs and drawings.
Author: Diana Blake Gray
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-06-04
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781512024234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBraided-in rugs only look complicated! With a few old T-shirts, a pair of scissors and a handful of safety pins, you can create stunning braided-in rugs. This lost folk art comes alive with simple step-by-step directions. These durable, reversible rugs are made in a single step, which automatically forms swirling lines for big visual impact. The author walks the first-time rug maker through the process and shows how to make rugs with two, four, six and even eight strands. Directions for right- and left-handers, plus no-sew options make the rugs suitable for all skill levels. With a dozen projects in various shapes, you can create your own heirloom rugs and baskets with fabrics ranging from light cotton to heavy wool.
Author: Diana Blake Gray
Publisher: Rafter-Four Designs
Published: 2008-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931426299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis third volume in the Rugmaker's Handbook series is designed to teach textile explorers of all skill levels to make crocheted or fabric tapestry rag rugs from fabric strip, with simple crochet stitches. Step-by-step directions make it easy to create patterned rugs in any shape including freeform rugs. This classic book has been revised, expanded and updated and for the first time includes directions to adapt rug patterns to any material, including yarns.
Author: Tina Ignell
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781570763700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith its beautiful and clear illustrations, this guide to rug weaving is an inspiring journey into a world of dazzling color and eye-catching design. From classic stripes to pattern-woven designs, detailed directions are provided for 45 rugs that represent a wide range of weaving techniques. Beginning with stripe and check weaves in simple tabby, the rugs progress in difficulty to intriguing challenges such as chenille, drall, diamond twill, rag inlay, repp, and rosepath weaves. Creative approaches to materials show how to cut strips from favorite old shirts, sheets, and jeans, and the emphasis throughout is on creative flair, imaginative design, and the pleasure of making a one-of-a-kind rug imbued with memories.
Author: Diana Blake Gray
Publisher: Rafter-Four Designs
Published: 2009-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781931426312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is amazing what happens when you stand a piece of wool on its edge. With just the simplest of tools, you can make traditional shirred and standing wool rugs with incredibly rich textures, colors and patterns. Traditional Shirred and Standing Wool Rugs is the fourth volume in the Rugmaker's Handbook Series of reference books for textile explorers of all skill levels. The book covers all of the traditional methods of using fabric with step-by-step directions making it easy to create luxurious, reversible rugs from a variety of fabrics and recycled clothing. This classic book has been revised, expanded and updated to include never before published methods. Shirred and standing wool rugs are a recycler's dream since they can be made with the smallest fabric scraps. Color cover, B&W interior with over 260 photos and illustrations.
Author: Tom Knisely
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 0811712125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery weaver weaves a rag rug—or two, or three. In this long-awaited book, well-known weaver and teacher Tom Knisely shares his knowledge and expertise in this collection of favorite rag rug patterns. • The first comprehensive book on weaving rag rugs in a generation • Color planning and design advice for rag rugs • Step-by-step instructions on warping and weaving for your rag rug • More than 30 rag rug projects, from simple to advanced
Author: Clare Hubbard
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781580174558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreating a beautiful throw rug from scraps is easy enough for anyone to master. Making Rag Rugs, a collection of 15 original designs from a variety of talented rug crafters, suits the skills of any crafter, from the rawest beginner to the most sophisticated talent. This book shows how to utilize such simple recycled ingredients as leftover fabric, old clothes, and household textiles to create these beloved and time-honored rugs. The techniques are easy to learn, the cost is minimal, and very little special equipment is needed. Each project is accompanied by a detailed "what you will need" list, step-by-step instructions with color illustrations and full-color photographs of the whole rug, and close-up detail that brings the projects to life and makes them easy to achieve. Specification boxes detail the size of the rug and the technique used. The designs in this book are contemporary and fun. The Retro Flower Rug is inspired by the classic flower shapes used by Andy Warhol and Mary Quant in the 1960s. Lavender Field is made from soft woolen blankets dyed in shades of green and mauve to represent lavender flowers, foliage, and surrounding fields. Lavender buds are even sewn into the lining to gently scent the room. A wonderfully rustic Braided Woolly Rug is made from cream and white blankets and black and gray coat and skirt fabrics. All of the basics are covered - from preparing the rags to finishing, cleaning, and caring for the completed rugs. Once crafters have mastered the techniques of hooking, prodding, braiding, and weaving, the next step is to design their own rugs.
Author: Jenni Stuart-Anderson
Publisher: White Owl
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1526780615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking is good for you. Exploring crafts can be relaxing and therapeutic : the projects in this book are accessible to anyone who is inspired to recycle old clothes and textiles into unique, decorative, useful projects. Our forbears improvised tools to recycle their worn clothes - mostly dark suiting or mill waste if they lived near a mill. Usually they made mats for their cold floors or as draft excluders across doors. Nowadays you can choose from so many more colors and textures - painting with rags! Try one project or more. You will be able to use the techniques to design and make your own one-off items for your home or as hand-made gifts. The techniques here are traditional and simple - you will be surprised at how drab fabrics become transformed. Simple designs work best and you can even improvise as you work. If a fabric runs out, then use another - I call that organic design! Hooking is the best technique for pictorial detail and different techniques could be combined for original wall art. Historically, rugs were made by several people sitting round a horizontal frame with the children cutting the pieces of rag which were prodded into the hessian (burlap) backing to make a shaggy mat. There is a prodded project (for purists) but you can also achieve the same effect without a frame by progging, which can be done on table or thigh (carefully). Warning – this craft can be addictive!
Author: Jan Messent
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780855324278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRags - Backing - Frames - What kind of rug? - Designs - Borders - Backgrounds - Sketch the design - Enlarging & transferring designs - Cut-outs - Using a grid - Making a scale drawing - Hooking - Prodding - Finishing.
Author: Bobbie Irwin
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRug twining is so simple all ages and skill levels can do it, and is especially beneficial for seniors or anyone who wants to increase manual dexterity. The materials are practically free (fabric scraps) and the results are durable, heirloom quality floor coverings. Step-by-step instructions for nine samplers and ten full-size rugs are included.
