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You have stumbled upon an old technique that my great-grandmother used to interlock her own fabric strips. She made many beautiful braided rugs that I enjoyed up until my late twenties when her daughter passed away and the rugs went to the four winds (her daughter's daughters). Her rugs had smooth braids with no bumps or wrinkles. Just exquisite. It broke my heart to hear that one was mistreated and destroyed. I have her role of brown waxed twine that she used to lace many of them together by hand. It's about 50 years old, but strong as the day it was made. I can't wait to lace my own rug together with it.
Very detailed and great video to watch. Thank you for sharing. I made a crocheted rug of yarn, it came out very nice. After seeing a rag rug I want to attempt to make one.
One more question, how does flannel work in making the rugs? I have lots of flannel and would like to use up some of it and was thinking maybe in the bathroom. Thank you for such great tutorials, I've never come across anyone that is so good at explaing how to make something, so thank you for helping a novice for sure :)
Hello!!! Thank you for your very kind words .. much much appreciated!! Flannel is AWESOME to work with! There are actually 2 types of flannel. Printed flannel & yarn-dyed flannel. Both are good in our rugs. Like most printed fabrics, the back side of print flannel can often be white so you might need to turn your strips to allow for the print side only to show. Yarn-dyed Flannel is very similar to Homespuns. This type of flannel is woven. Each thread is individually dyed. Therefore both sides of yarn-dyed flannel is the same! It's my favorite of the 2 to work with! Hope you'll stay in touch!
Hello, Katie! So happy you've reached out! We sure do! Here are 2 links you might like: Amish Knot Rug Part ONE! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N2I7ehdQGbk.html Amish Knot Rug Part TWO! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h7L1cXgE8gA.html
Excellent question! Thank you for reaching out! You will find when working with some fibers specifically jute, jute twine & twine, it's gets very confusing! (At least to me anyway) If you are ordering any of these online for example, the picture may show something entirely different than what you actually receive. I ordered a "jute twine" years ago online thinking it was a heavyweight jute & received a very small roll. It was more of a bailing twine farmers may use. We ended up incorporating it into many crocheted craft projects & borders. A win for me! BUT, it wasn't what I thought I was ordering. Pay close attention to the details when ordering! We recommend a 6 mm, 6 ply jute for our rugs. Try not to be tempted by anything else or (from my experience) you may be disappointed.
