You can make your rug a square or a rectangle.
How to make a clippy mat.
This is a lady making a proggy mat note they are made stretched on a frame and worked with the wrong side facing up.
Traditionally made from old sacks and strips of material pushed or pulled through with a hook or a prodder they give old strips of material the chance to become works of art.
Cut the mat down to the desired size.
The clippy proggy hooky rough rag mat known by many names the clippy mat grew out of the needs of poor workers to furnish their homes in much less throw away times.
This will show you what size to cut your fabric and how to add it to.
Visitors to middlesbrough institute of modern art mima can now buy traditional clippy mats.
You can even cut it into a shape such as a crescent moon or heart.
Like many crafts mat making was originally born out of necessity but today is very much about.
They are also known as clippy mats proddy cleekie clootie stobby poked tab broddy bodged and peg rugs.
A short video which explains how to create textile projects using the proggy technique.
The traditional proggy mat once a common feature of north east homes is making a comeback.
Basically proggy proddy peggy tab clippie and clootie mats are all regional names for the same thing.
Hooky mats are slightly different but all the names refer to how the mats are made or the tool used to make them.
Elsewhere they are known as clippy mats proddy mats and peg rugs for example.
So when i saw the ouseburn farm poster about learning proggy mat making also known as hooky clippy clootie mats or rugs my attention was caught.
I have admired ali s work for years and in danger of being a bit too.
The fact that it was ali rhind teaching the taster course made me decide to find out if i could get on this course.
The tradition of mat making isn t unique to the north east but the terms hooky and proggy are.
Made from old sacks and recycled fabric including old clothes and sheets proggy mats were an economical option to keep feet warm in an era before fitted carpets.