Aleppo Wedding, Chapter 2
October 10, 2020
Taking lack of opposition for encouragement, his mother went right on to talking about how soon they could find him an apartment (nearby), how much his father would have to pay for it, and how many rooms it must have. By the time his youngest sister had been sent to make the coffee, his mother […]
Read ArticleRug Sculpting
October 7, 2020
Can rug hooking be used to make anything other than flat rugs? Well I never thought it was possible but as I was browsing through Etsy- a online folk art shopping website, I stubbled upon a woman who makes sculptures out of wool using the rug hooking technique. If a giant pineapple is not your idea […]
Read ArticleAn article on The Rug Company
October 2, 2020
One of the biggest name in rug design and manufacture in the UK is The Rug company. Set up by Christopher and Suzanne Sharp in 1997 The Rug Company have only but prospered in the rug market. In the beginning the rug market was filled with old rugs descended from old traditional persian rugs. Their […]
Read ArticleRug Colours and Dying processes
September 25, 2020
Most colour effects can be achieved in several different ways. As an example, a solid coloured fabric could be made by dying loose fibre in a single colour, spinning that fibre into yarn and using that yarn to tuft rugs. However the same fabric could be made by immersing white yarn into the dyebath and […]
Read ArticleRug Designs, Chapter 2
September 25, 2020
Distortions can be introduced by exaggerating or simplifying the object by using colours and proportions that are not natural. Geometric designs are designs created in circles, squares, ovals, rectangles, ellipses and other geometrical forms. Lastly, abstract designs have little or no reference to real objects. Often they are geometric but are less rigid. Designs have […]
Read ArticleCleopatra's Carpets, Shakespeare Explained.
September 20, 2020
The barge she sat on, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold. Purple the sails, and so perfumed that the winds were lovesick with them. Cleopatra's silken bed would have been laid over a large rug or carpet. The ancient Egyptians made rugs out of the materials to hand, […]
Read ArticleMake your own rug?
August 30, 2020
Primitive rug hooking was born of necessity during pioneer times when families had to make their homes warmer. Whole families became involved in creating the rugs that decorated their homes. Today, you can fashion a rug yourself from scratch or buy a rug hooking kit. To make a primitive hooked rug , you need the […]
Read ArticleRug Alert
August 22, 2020
A large rug 'antique Persian' a small child, a bottle of ink, disaster! I saw it falling, leapt towards it. The blue ink splashed through my fingers onto the muted greys of the beautiful Persian rug, soaking into it as fast as if the fine wool had been blotting paper. I grabbed it up from […]
Read ArticleThe things that good people do for rug makers
August 20, 2020
Some handcrafted baskets and pots made by artisans in El Salvador and Sri Lanka can be found in Walmart. But at the 24th annual Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale in Vineland, ON, lovers of traditional African musical instruments, toys, baskets and rugs can purchase these rare, unique items and be assured that the artisans are […]
Read ArticleTufting
July 24, 2020
All the modern rugs you see on line are hand tufted rugs, however the definition of tufting is a Pile consisting of tufts or loops formed by inserting a yarn into a previously prepared backing fabric. The yarn forming the pile stands verticle to the base or ground. The pile is cut and the backing […]
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