Rag Rugging for Beginners: Make Textile Home Decorations
Loopy Technique and Finishing Touches 1
A course by Elspeth Jackson (Ragged Life) , Textile Artist and Rug Maker
Joined November 2020
Joined November 2020
About the video: Loopy Technique and Finishing Touches 1
Overview
“The neatest of all the rag rug techniques is the loopy technique, otherwise known as the 'hooky' or hooked rag rugging. In this lesson, I will guide you in completing the colourful rag rug by filling the central section and centres of our border flowers with loops of fabric. By doing this, you will learn how to use a proper rug hook. ”
In this video lesson Elspeth Jackson (Ragged Life) addresses the topic: Loopy Technique and Finishing Touches 1, 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
“ Loopy Technique and Finishing Touches Hi, we're back again. In this lesson here, we'll be learning the loopy style of rag rugging and we'll be filling this central panel so that it's full of the loopy style of rag rugging. You can see here that I've sketched this "hello" into the centre of our rug. We always start, generally, when we're doing a design like this with the design element that's most important to us. In this design here, the central panel, the "hello" is the main event. I'll start my loopy rag rugging there. We've chosen to use a dark, almost like a deep plum colour for this ...”
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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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