Welcome to the board. A braided rug is on my bucket list, but I don't know how to make them yet.

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I remember watching my great-grandmother make braided rugs when I was a kid. She used any heavy fabric but her 'best' rugs were made with wool. She'd sit at her sewing machine and sew the strips together. After she got a braid started, she'd put the end over the thread spindle on the sewing machine - braid some more, than adjust to braid again. If she needed to add fabric to her strips, she was right there at her machine. She used carpet thread to sew the braids together for a rug. When polyester fabric became popular, she used that. Those never wore out. I still have some around, and she passed away over 25 years ago.