So when my childhood friend Muriel Ann Glitzengelder invited me to join her in learning to make rag rugs on a loom, I enthusiastically agreed. Sign me up! When do we start? (Do we actually know ...

By creating a basic loom out of a large piece of cardboard ... Most fabrics can be used to make a rag rug, although you should stick with the same fabric type for the entire rug.

If you are new to weaving, making a rag rug is an excellent introduction to ... To start, make the loom with a large rectangle of cardboard. The size of your finished weaving will be a few inches ...

Photo provided Dee Nierman’s mother is shown in the past at the 1864 loom that Nierman uses today. Rag-rug maker Dee Nierman ... which also helped make the documentary possible.

full of surprisingly diverse and consistently attractive designs for rag rug weaving. The craft isn't a simple one, and this book doesn't shy away from making it clear that a full-sized loom is ...

Rag Rugs are stylish (think farmhouse chic) and durable. Ace Rug Works owned by the Chichowic family has been making these beautiful ... their unique rugs on looms created a century ago.

He also spent many hours figuring out how to make the production of looms more efficient ... A Publication for Rag Rug Weavers. Consider placing a classified advertisement in that publication.

I looked around for some way to make extra money. I saw an ad for a loom for making rag rugs. I talked to my mother-in-law. She said she knew how to thread a loom and how one pulled strips of rags ...

Soon Kessenich was in business. "The loom's reputation was built on it being strong enough to make rag rugs," explains Ann Niemi, the weaver who has helped her husband refine the loom design over ...

Moments before, the hodgepodge pile Lewis cradled on her lap was part of a collection of 310 rag rugs arranged ... her family gathered around a loom to make their rug on Mother’s Day.

"My wife and I bought a loom at an auction with the thought of continuing the family tradition," he said. Making rag rugs is only a part of what can be done with colorful threads and a device to ...

Each loom will have four different choices of colors or material. For the rag rugs, participants can make plaid, striped and checkerboard patterns. Sawyer said she has some traditional made rugs ...