Originally Posted by ckcowl
i make hooked wool rugs, locker hooked rugs, wrapped clothesline rugs and even crocheted rugs...I LOVE RUGS! almost more than quilting (did i really say that???)
but i don't have room for a loom- or the desire to start yet another different technique---so- i sold my loom
i suggest you visit the place offering classes- and ask questions about looms- the one i had was a table top loom-not real big- but for some reason very expensive (at least i thought so) my mom had picked it up at an auction and given it to me- i moved it from spot to spot for about 10 years- then decided it was just in the way- when i finally decided to look it up and find out about it i found out that they sell for anywhere from $400= $750 for the one i had!!! it deserved a better home than what i had been giving it! so i let it go
rag rugs are seldom (if ever) made with a loom
rag rugs tend to be hooked- or crocheted- or tooth brush rugs---which is another technique- easy to learn- easy to make- uses up those scraps!
prehaps do a rag-rug search
Sorry, I beg to differ on the loom made rag rugs, especially as you live in the UP. Surely the older-than-time rag rug Finnish ladies up there have not given up their looms and rug making. Surely not. I have been gone for many a year, but some of my fine rugs from the hand made Finnish looms are still alive and well. I so well remember my grandma, sitting on the front porch of an evening, after the dishes were done, cutting and rolling rags until she had enough to take to one of the ladies with a loom and pretty soon, a new rug would appear in the kitchen. I would so hate to think that this time honored skill has gone by the wayside.