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.

ROCK SPRINGS — Mary Huff provided instruction on making rag rugs during the Busy Hands Section meeting of the Woman's Club of Rock Springs. She provided the rags and crochet hooks needed if members ...

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. So when my childhood friend ...

While most people moan about the recession, one group of women are enjoying the return to the more economical make-do-and-mend mindset. While most people moan about the recession, one group of women ...

Before video hosting services such as YouTube became available, sharing one’s skills as a crafter were of paramount importance for keeping them alive so future generations could produce such works ...

As weaving skills are evaporating in Finland, so is the ability to design rag rugs.

Photo provided Dee Nierman’s mother is shown in the past at the 1864 loom that Nierman uses today. Rag-rug maker Dee Nierman lets it be known right at the top of a conversation that, at 87 years old, ...

Were rag rugs made of wool strips first made in Canada 150 years ago to cover dirt floors? Or were they first made in England during the early 19th century from short pieces of yarn left over from ...

TEN York Crafters are holding their fourth Mainly Rag Rugs exhibition and "running workshop" at York Cemetery Chapel, Cemetery Road, York. For one morning each week, a group of friends by the name of ...