Buying a tufting gun to make DIY mats and rugs has grown extremely popular among young Chinese today due to the sense of accomplishment it brings. However, shop owners say that the future of this ...

Tufting rugs have become incredibly popular. Fiber artist and maker of tufted rugs, Trish Andersen had made a colorful stair runner that looked like paint drippings. In 2019, she posted an image of ...

Teens and twenty-somethings pick up all kinds of weird tips from TikTok, ranging from the harmless and sweet (like cottagecore style) to downright dangerous (like DIY dental work). During the COVID ...

Textile artist Simji debuts with an approachable manual on how to make small rugs and other items with a tufting gun, which is used “to push yarn through a primary cloth.” Offering a rundown of tools ...

After a hectic workweek, Hyderabad-based chartered accountants Deepika Mamidala and Sneha Mupparthi unwind with a rug tufting session at Artgram, a cosy art studio. Deepika, an art enthusiast, sees it ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Simji is a textile artist who designs and sells rugs. She creates a variety of rugs, including pet portraits. To make them, she projects a design onto backing cloth and ...

While Justin Clarke was scrolling through his TikTok feed last summer, a tufting video came across his screen. He was hooked. In these TikTok videos, tufters draw with an industrial metal tool, making ...

Sarah Magliocco is a journalist and content creator. Rug making is having a modern revival - and it's all down to the power of social media. TikTok and Instagram Reels have boosted the popularity of ...

During the pandemic, various throwback artisanal activities suddenly rose in popularity, presumably hearkening back to a simpler, more wholesome era when people slowly, carefully made things by hand ...