Area Rugs Crafts Resources

Rug Hooking Information
A rug hooking studio based out of Maine. Website includes a perfection acid dye color card, rug hooking tools and equipment, a rug hooking book shop, a rug hooking kit list, rug hooking designs, a hooked rug gallery, hand dyed swatches, links to other rug hooking websites, and articles about rug hooking that include onion skin dyeing, over dyeing for beautiful hooked rugs, binding rug edges, origins of rug hooking, hooking leaves, and more.

Rug Making
This is a sparse site, covering just a few aspects of rug making and in only rudimentary detail. However, you can get a brief description and overview of how to make a braided rug, including materials and simple instructions for actually making a braided rug. There are also material lists and simple instructions for making hooked rugs, and latch-hooked rugs.

Rag Rugs Information
Site includes articles about rug history and advice, a catalog and a rug tour of tambour, shirred, standing wool, knitted, flat wrap, Amish knot, chain braids, broomsticks, string crocheted, fabric tapestry, anchored loop, needle worked, toothbrush rugs, loom woven, patched penny rugs, frame mad rugs, and wagon wheeled rugs. Articles include ways to join fabric strips when making rag rugs, crocheted rag rug patterns, rag rugs square footage calendar, making money with rug making, and novelty and fad rugs. Website includes free patterns and instructions including creating floor cloth, making a Christmas tree skirt, fun braiding projects with cotton strips and 6-stand ladder braiding.

Braided Area Rugs
This braided rug database includes photos and a gallery of braided rugs and a picture rug gallery. Provided is information about rug restoration and repairs as well as a chair pad gallery. Chair pads can be made as sets for dining room chairs, or individually for accent chairs, etc. They can also be made for ottomans, bar stools, and in oval shapes for window seats and benches. Chair pads may also be made with hooked centers to depict a favorite scene or a photo of a pet.

The Rugmaker's Homestead
The Rugmaker's Homestead is a resource to maintain the lost folk art of making rag rugs. The site contains everything visitors need to know when creating a rag rugs, including articles, directions, books, rag tools, rag kits and rag fabrics. Order materials and supplies through the catalog and read about the rag rugs tour. Rags include: Tambour rugs, Shirred rugs, Standing wool rugs, Chain Braid rugs, Amish Knots, Anchored Loops, Bodkin, Toothbrush rugs, Loom woven rugs, patched rugs, penny rugs, sewn shags, frame made rugs, wagon wheel rugs, and braided rugs.