Tying rag rug yourself
Do you have old clothes lying with nice prints? Or do you have old pillowcases, duvet covers, sheets, curtains or other leftovers? Recycle your old patches and tie a happy dress! Not even really hard, you know! Tear the rags into strips of approx. 4cm wide, make them together and tie a round, square, small or large dress. Lovely as a play mat in the nursery, and also just washable in the washing machine!
You make the rug as big as you want. Optionally, fringes with beads can also be created at the edge. This rug here was made by Marlijn van Mar_onlijn . She tore strips of fabric from approx. 3 fingers wide and then pulled the frays off a little (that's very easy). For buttoning/weaving, she has her own button needle made of copper wire. Twist the copper wire into an S (crossed in the middle) and wrap it over with duct tape.
Make the strips of fabric together, by folding the end in half and cutting a slice in them, at both ends. Then you take one piece of dust through the slice of the other strip of dust, then through the slice of its own tail. Pull it on gently so you loop them together.
Tie the knot line of strips of fabric to the button needle and you can get started! Once you've made the start, the rest will change by itself. Explaining with words is quite difficult, so watch a handy video here!
