The equipment and materials you ll need to make hooked rugs include wool strips a hand hook scissors and burlap.
Making hooked rugs using fabric strips.
Stack several pieces of cotton fabric together then cut it into 1 by 5 inch 2 54 by 12 7 centimeter strips.
Despite its practicality locker hooking never really gained the popularity it deserved in america.
Insert the hook into the middle of the fold.
How to make a rectangle rug from a jelly roll.
For intricate patters and hoop frame also helps.
You can either sew all of the strips together like making an oval shaped rug above or make it about 45 long by sewing the batting in each strip individually like kathy did on this rug.
Then using duct tape yes duct tape all around the edges.
There is evidence of rug hooking techniques in rag rugs made by the vikings.
In the early days women sometimes substituted strips of cotton fabric for the more costly strands of wool for locker hooked rugs which were quite similar in appearance to traditionally hooked rugs.
If you re handy with a crochet hook already you ll find this project both straightforward and very rewarding.
It is a cheap and strong tape that will make sure your fabric is not going to come off.
It s easy to make a rectangular shaped rug from a jelly roll or strips of 2 1 2 cut fabrics.
A hook is used to pull these loops through thus the name rug hooking.
Before you use your pretty new rug apply a few more coats of poly to make sure you have a wipe able surface.
Photo by borgne m.
Cut your fabric into thin strips.
Consider using one solid color and one coordinating pattern.
Pull the hook under the seam by pulling it back out from in the.
I did 5 coats.
Rug hooking is the craft of creating rugs by pulling loops of fabric or yarn through a woven backing.
It is believed that rug hooking as a popular home art s origin is.
You can use all one color but using two or three will make your rug look more interesting.