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Rug twining history.
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Over a century ago twining began to be used to weave rugs.
This will make your double side by side twining weave.
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In the north west of england for example rag rugs were put on beds to ward off the cold and in the north east old wooden clothes pegs were filed down to rag.
This richly illustrated book includes step by step instructions for nine samplers and ten full sized twined rugs as well as information on constructing a basic twining frame and preparing the rag strip weft.
For a single twining weave the process is the same except you only have to focus on two threads.
Twining is an ancient technique possibly 25 000 years old used in basket making and weaving world wide.
A photo gallery of rugs and personal stories of rug twiners round out this fascinating volume.
Making rugs from rags became popular during the 19th century with the industrial production of cloth.
In this video i show you how to add a strip of material and how to finish a row and start a new one.
To make things even more confusing the history of rag rugs is a very localised history.
Then weaving the second color under a warp and up then pull that to the outside.
I review in more detail the twining process.
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