The Book Original Rugs About Making Masks Quickly I made 20 masks using a video how-to, and I thought I was going to go out of my mind. The method was way too fiddly and there wasn’t any way to streamline it. I ran out of bias binding. I don’t want to go to the store to...
In southeast Pennsylvania, frugal sewers saved and shared their textile scraps to create useful, pretty rugs, especially in the late 19th and 20th centuries. To document the region's hooked rug arts, The Heritage Center of Lancaster County conducted the Lancaster County Rug Harvest from 2004 to ...
FROM RAGS TO RUGSDroste, Rachel
Aug. 17. Rugs and mats; carpeta.-Mats, hearthrugs, and carpets, with the pile of rags, list, yarn, or waste cuttings, have these rags &c. a passed or knotted round groups of warp threads b, after which the weft threads are inserted in the usual way. The cuttings &c. may be ...