Floor Rug Styles
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Braided Rugs
Braided rugs are manufactured by using at least 3 or more strips of commercial grade fabric, generally quality wool, folding the materials raw edges to the center and braiding them all together. For a rug which is oval the middle braid should be 25mm longer than the width-length in metres. For example 2 metre x 4 metre rug middle strip would be 2metre'2metre" in length. The middle braid is then laced together and various new strips are sewn on to ensure the braid is longer as lacing continues.
Handmade Woven & Machine-made Floor Rugs
All types and sizes of woven rugs including both wide, long and flat rugs (i.e. kilims) and many of the modern style shaggy and/or shag pile rugs.
Hooking - Latch Hook For Making Rugs.
Modern rug hooking is a traditional craft where the rugs are manufactured by pulling loops of commercial yarn and/or fabric through a tough woven base known as "burlap", "linen", "rug warp" or monks cloth. The loops are pulled carefully through the back of the fabric by using a latch hook usually mounted in a handle made from hardened wood giving more leverage.
Rag Rugs
Rag rugs were generally manufactured in domestic households to around the middle of the 20th century by means of using odd scraps of material on a course piece of of old sacking cloth.
Needlepunch
Simply by using either strips of cloth or yarn, you work carefully and slowly using a punch tool from the back or opposite side of the pattern of material. The commercial grade of Monk's cloth backing is then tightly stretched onto a solid frame. Each and every time the needle is punched down through the material backing it produces a long tight thread on the right hand side of the wollen rug. Then, as the needle is carefully lifted, it automatically makes it into a durable loop.
These loops come together to produce a rug so tough and durable that chewing animalss are its only real enemy. As long as the the tool is used in the correct manner, it will automatically create all of the loops the very same manner and length. Oftentimes it is called "speed hooking", and this technique of "rug hooking" is mainly used for its ease and quick speed.
Prodded
Proddy floor rugs are usually made (as the name suggests) by prodding or poking individual strips of durable fabric through burlap or course linen from the back or opposite side. Rag floor rugs manufactured in this manner have many names; proddies, stobbies, clippies and/or pricked.
In the area of Northumberland they are known as proggy mats, and in the country of Scotland they are known as "clootie mats". These rugs were often produced for more domestic type uses such as a tough and durable backdoor mat because the type of woven pile hides dirt extremely well.
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