Rag Rugging for Beginners: Make Textile Home Decorations
How to Transfer the Design onto the Hessian
A course by Elspeth Jackson (Ragged Life) , Textile Artist and Rug Maker
Joined November 2020
Joined November 2020
About the video: How to Transfer the Design onto the Hessian
Overview
“It’s all very well having your beautiful design on a piece of paper, but how do you get it onto the hessian? In this lesson, you will learn just that. I will show different techniques you can employ to transfer a design from paper to hessian. ”
In this video lesson Elspeth Jackson (Ragged Life) addresses the topic: How to Transfer the Design onto the Hessian, 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
“ How to Transfer the Design on to the Hessian Now that we have our lovely hemmed bit of hessian, in this lesson, we'll be transferring the design we created in an earlier lesson onto the hessian in front of us. Here, I have got my 75 cm x 45 cm piece of rug hessian. This was the design that we came up with earlier. We first of all decided that we wanted approximately a 7 cm deep border around the outside of our rug to help frame it and give it a bit of structure. Simply, the first thing I'll be doing is making sure that border is in position. It's quite an easy process, but you can do this...”
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Course summary for: Rag Rugging for Beginners: Make Textile Home Decorations
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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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