Weaving Contemporary Rag Rugs: New Designs, Traditional Techniques

by Heather Allen

Book Overview

Weaving rag rugs is an old technique that arose out of necessity centuries ago. This book brings rag rugs out of old country cabins and places them beside the best of contemporary crafts and decor.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887374396
• ISBN13: 9781887374392
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

A must for rug rug weavers, full of new ideas!

I think this book is great. She shows lots of great color photos of rag rugs, and then in the back has lots of "projects" which show the completed rug and have very good detailed instructions, like warp calculations, and tie-up and drafts, all you need to know to make the rug, just like it's pictured. But all the photos give ideas on how to customize the rug to be exactly what you want. Also the author gives a good introductory history of rag rugs chapter, and tells all about how great, beautiful, and functional rag rugs are. I also can't say enough good things about this book. The best rag rug weaving book I've ever seen.

Pure inspiartion

This is a book of pure inspiartion and aspiration. I loved the color images and the new and traditional options available to the handweaver. I can't say enough good things about this.