Still rug making,

• victor matcham

  • Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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  24 March 2024     16:27384234
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  Yes sir that is what I still do the rug I am doing at this time is very big ,been working on it now off and on for over a year my own design,making it up as I go. Will it be my last one?that I do not know yet. I give them away when done.
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• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  24 March 2024     23:58384237
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  Hi Vic,
  
  Any chance of some photos showing your progress?
  
  I can remember my mum making a diy wool rug in the fifties and using a strange bakalite chopper which had a razor blade to cut the wool to length (see below). Do people still use them?
  
  My carer says that her mum made 'rag rugs' and had some sort of a special rug crochet hook to pull lengths of material through? She used old clothes apparently and now accuses my Mum who used rug-wool as being 'posh'!
  
  I know (before some idiot says it) I could Google 'rug-making' or look it up on YouTube but I'd prefer it first hand off you as I didn't realise rug-making was still a 'thing' and had forgotten all about Mum's rug making!
  
  Thanks.
  
  http://messybeast.com/rugmaking/rugmaking-3-rotary-cutters.htm
  
  (Yes Keef, I'm also interested in rug-making. Can you have polymaths when there's no polymathematics - or is that only in the USA?)
  "Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  25 March 2024     00:44384238
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   Captain Haddock wrote:

  Hi Vic,
  
  Any chance of some photos showing your progress?
  
  I can remember my mum making a diy wool rug in the fifties and using a strange bakalite chopper which had a razor blade to cut the wool to length (see below). Do people still use them?
  
  My carer says that her mum made 'rag rugs' and had some sort of a special rug crochet hook to pull lengths of material through? She used old clothes apparently and now my carer accuses my Mum who used rug-wool as being 'posh'!
  
  I know (before some idiot says it) I could Google 'rug-making' or look it up on YouTube but I'd prefer it first hand off you as I didn't realise rug-making was still a 'thing' and had forgotten all about Mum's rug making!
  
  Thanks.
  
  http://messybeast.com/rugmaking/rugmaking-3-rotary-cutters.htm
  
  (Yes Keef, I'm also interested in rug-making. Can you have polymaths when there's no polymathematics - or is that only in the USA?)
  "Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
• victor matcham

  • Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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  25 March 2024     04:47384239
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  I am no good on getting things on the laptop,but I might know someone who will do it for me, yes I have a few hooks which are of a difference size.Rug making is still very popular ,and I buy my kits from oversea,because they are bigger and I think better to.I have one rug left which is complete and ready to give away, so anyone can come up have a look and if they like it they can have it.The one I am working on now as I have already said is just one I am making with left over wool and will be some time before it is ready.Putting the backs on is not easy so I pay for that to be done by the shop in Dover that does repairs and make clothes he is very good, I buy the backs and he sews the backs on ,but with the one I am doing now because I am going to try to do it myself. I do buy kits from the USA,and CANADA.
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
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  25 March 2024     09:08384247
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   victor matcham wrote:

  I do buy kits from the USA,and CANADA.

  
  
  For those who might be interested I used to buy most of my cross stitch kits from the USA as the choice of image was so much better and even with postage not more expensive than UK kits.
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