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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Thread, was Braided rugs
  • Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:26:03 -0800

For rugs, you want a heavy duty carpet thread. Thread uses an inverse rating, so the heavier the thread the smaller the number. You don't want anything higher than 40.

Gramma used to make the braided rugs. She'd make the strips out of old wool men's suits she'd get at Goodwill/Salvations Army. Then us kids would braid and she'd circle and sew.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "SJC" <indexer AT localnet.com>


It's find to use old thread there but when you go to sew the braids one
to another you'll want something heavy, and new. There are threads made
for just that purpose called 'lacing' thread or yarn, but come to think
of it I haven't seen any for 20 years or more, so maybe that's not the
case anymore.. In any case, you'll want something both very pliable (so
it doesn't show) and rather 'soft' in feel (so it doesn't cut into your
rag under stress). I have always found enough at yard sales to hold me,
but short of that I might look at some of the lighter weight braided
fishline.

They make special needles for the job (not surprisingly called lacing
needles), too, and they are worth the price. Business end is flattened
and bent, eye is large. Just thought about this place:
http://oxfordmillendstore.com/sub-category.asp?cID=8 I've bought from
them in the past, almost forgot they were there. There are a lot of
braiders here; that Verna Cox who the book they have listed just lives
over a ways from here.
Has anyone here actually made a rug or something similar from
sheets/scrap material?
Many, woven mostly, one crochet (last time I ever do that!), one knit
(last time I ever do that, too!), several small area rugs that I braided
when we lived in VA. Now I'm where there is more scrap wool I generally
use wool, as it is easier on the hands to handle, more durable,
dyeable, and holds it's shape better, although I do still weave a lot of
rag of all sorts. Many a winter hour is still spent by the stove taking
out seams, putting zips in one pile, buttons in a jar... For kitchen or
porch rugs cotton is best, throw in washer and over line and you're
done. I have a couple of floor looms and keep one warped up for wool
and the other for cotton.

SusanJane, up here in the gray drip, drip, drip....


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