Enter rag rugs, floor covers made from scrap fabrics, which are an easy, low-budget craft that can cheer up any room using materials you probably already have at home. ... Make your loom: 1.

Making stuff with your own hands can be very rewarding. Not only do you get the satisfaction of being creative, but research shows do-it-yourself hobbies relieve stress.

If you are new to weaving, making a rag rug is an excellent introduction to this rhythmic and methodical craft. Most likely, you have every thing you need at home: cardboard, string and fabric scraps.

Rag-rug maker Dee Nierman lets it be known right at the top of a conversation that, at 87 years old, she is holding up as well or better than her indomitable, fourth-generation loom built more ...

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 ...

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 ...

MCADOO, Pa. — Rag Rugs are stylish (think farmhouse chic) and durable. Ace Rug Works owned by the Chichowic family has been making these beautiful rugs for over 100 years!

"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 the years.

In the rug her family made of twisted knots of flannel, cotton and polyester, AnneMarie Lewis will always be able to find her scrap. “This right here,” she said Sunday, running her fing… ...

Q — I have a 1932 double trestle, full warp loom that was made by the Union Loom Works of Boonville, N.Y. It has all new needles. I would like to know what it is worth and where I can sell it. W ...

For the classes, looms will be pre-warped, meaning material will already be on them. Each loom will have four different choices of colors or material. For the rag rugs, participants can make plaid ...