Easy Steps in Making Cotton Shag Rugs

You would wonder how would cotton shag rugs are made? Shag rugs are great choice to be designed as your floor coverings in area you want. Smaller cotton shag rugs are great as bathroom mats or area throw rugs. A Larger cotton shag rugs can fill an entire room. This article will show you how to make a cotton shag rug of any size or color using an olden hand rug making technique.

You can even make “green” Eco-friendly cotton shag rugs with this method. Just follow these simple steps and let see what would be the result of your work:

· Step 1

The first step would be deciding the size and design of your cotton shag rug. Identify the dimensions, the color and the length and width you want the pile to be.

· Step 2

Second step is to obtain materials to make a “thumped rug.” You have to look for a local or online craft store that you can purchase materials to make a thumped rug. This is differing that cuffed hook or other forms of hand hooked rugs. Most hand rug hooking arts usually call for drawing wool strips through the holes of a burlap or special rug canvas. But of all these types of hand rug hooking, the thumped rug method allows you to use cotton yarn so you can create a cotton shag rug, and it’s flexible as to how long the pile will be. You’ll need to buy a rug punch designed for actual rugs vs. the miniature kind meant for wall hangings (it’s like a large needle that yarn feeds into and they’re sometimes called punch needles, shuttle hooks or speed hooks – even though they’re needles, not hooks), a rug frame, rug burlap or canvas, cotton yarn, rug-binding tape, and optional liquid latex rug backing. If you plan to make a very large cotton shag rug, you’ll have to punch several smaller ones and bind them together carpet seaming tape.

· Step 3

The third is to stretch the burlap or rug canvas securely across the frame.

· Step 4

Thump the rug. Following the directions that come with your materials, thread your rug thump with cotton yarn and begin punching yarn into the back of the rug canvas, which inserts short pieces of cotton yarn into the front, eventually creating a full cotton shag rug. Do not overstuff or the rug will be bunchy when it’s laid on the floor.

· Step 5

Remove from frame and finish. Once the entire rug is punched and plush, remove it from its frame. Miter the corners, and then stitch rug-biding tape to the rug’s edges. You may also choose to spread liquid latex rug backing on the rug, letting it dry completely before use.

Those steps would be easy enough for you if you follow them correctly. You can make cotton shag rugs all by yourself and you can do any designs you want. Design your home with shag rugs that made by you.