Rag Rugging for Beginners: Make Textile Home Decorations
Sketching the Design and Choosing the Colours
A course by Elspeth Jackson (Ragged Life) , Textile Artist and Rug Maker
Joined November 2020
Joined November 2020
About the video: Sketching the Design and Choosing the Colours
Overview
“Ready to get creative? In this lesson, I will sketch out my rug design, showing you how to go from a simple idea to a practical pattern. I will explain how I go about choosing a colour scheme that will bring out the best in the design. ”
In this video lesson Elspeth Jackson (Ragged Life) addresses the topic: Sketching the Design and Choosing the Colours, which is part of the Domestika online course: Rag Rugging for Beginners: Make Textile Home Decorations. Transform old clothing and textile cut-offs into colorful home accessories using creative rag rugging techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Sketching the Design and Choosing the Colours In this lesson, I'll be showing you how you'd go about planning and sketching out your rug. The first step of the process is to think about where you'll be putting this rug. Generally, we are customising the size of the rug to the space that you've got. Which means that this project that we are doing today, although I'm doing it at a certain scale, if you wanted to enlarge this design and put it somewhere else, you could do that using the instructions that we are doing today. The space that I want this little rug to inhabit is in my new home a...”
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Course summary for: Rag Rugging for Beginners: Make Textile Home Decorations
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Category
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Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Decoration, Fiber Arts, Textile Design
Elspeth Jackson (Ragged Life)
A course by Elspeth Jackson (Ragged Life)
Elspeth Jackson is a textile artist and rug maker based in Brighton, England. She’s also the founder of sustainable craft business Ragged Life. Elspeth grew up in a creative household and was first introduced to the technique of rag rugging by her mother. As a teenager, she began making rugs of her own using recycled materials, and later went on to run workshops on the art form. In 2014, after the success of her workshops, she started her brand Ragged Life.
Since then, Elspeth has taught thousands of crafters how to upcycle their textile waste through rag rugging and sells everything from pre-printed hessian to rug ragging tools. She also works with local mills to prevent their textile offcuts from going to landfills as part of her commitment to sustainability. Elspeth has published two books in which she shares her expertise on the craft, Rag Rugs, Pillows & more and Rag Rug Techniques for Beginners, and has appeared on TV both in the UK and globally. In 2019, she also won the Mollie Makes Best Established Business Award.
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