Making rugs hooked prodded and rag rugs has 6 166 members.
Rag rug proddy.
Over the years the craft of making floor coverings from rags or scraps of fabric fell out of favour for a range of reasons.
The craft of proddy mat making is still very much alive and well.
How to use a spring hook if making a proddy picture mat thick wool fabric is perfect it gives your rug body and cutting your peices 2 long x 1 2 wide allows the peices to stand up firm keeping the picture in shape.
These techniques are not latch hooking.
The resulting shaggy rug surface of the proddy proggy rug can be trimmed or simply left as is note.
The image below is a selection of very simple progger tools which are all you need to get started in rag rug making.
If your partner is a bit handy he can make it.
This group is for anyone interested in making rugs post questions workshop and rug school dates photos and any related rug making.
Gene shepherd how to hook rugs.
Rag rugs made this way have many names such as clippies stobbies clippers and peggies.
They were often made for more.
Proddy rugs are made as the name implies by prodding or poking strips of fabric through hessian or linen from the back side.
In northumberland they are called proggy mats and in scotland they are called clootie mats.
It works on the same principle as the proddy frame by rolling up the rug from both ends and securing it with gears on the side of the frame.
Photos of proddy frames and more.
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It is both a hobby craft where mats are created by many for the pure joy of it and it has also been elevated into an art form by some textile artists.
If the material is thin as in cottons cut them 3 long x 1 wide.
Heather ritchie uk guide to the hooky rug.