How To Make A Felt Rug

And you can make one too any size you want.

How to make a felt rug.

By sewing these pieces together you can create your own felted stone rug. To learn how to felt review this how to make a felt scarf pattern a free workshop with 14 videos that takes you through every step in the process. Relatively inexpensive today felt has very rich roots. Rugs have been commonly made with felt throughout history and are still commonly made today.

Felt has a very interesting history and is the oldest textile fabric known to date. Once you have the dried pebbles ready it becomes time to create the rug. That s all normal and the amount of felting shedding and debris depends on the qualities of the individual fleece s used the felting process and the time taken by the maker to remove non fleece. I desperately needed a new rug and i tirelessly searched for one that i absolutely loved that was also.

A felted stone rug is a floor covering made with felted wool rovings. If you want you can just make one giant felt spiral and have a large round rug i wanted to make a rug that was made up of several of these mini felt spirals. I had to have it but the price tag was 1000 cdn. Used for a variety of reasons felt dates as far back as fourth century b c.

The more of them you make the larger the final rug will be. Wool roving is dyed wool that has not been woven into yarn. You can felt these pieces of wool yourself with hot water and you can shape the wet felt into stone. It was gorgeous the felt balls were made from brightly coloured wool that made them look like gum balls.

Then you ll know just about everything there is to know about felting in detail. I first saw this type of rug in a design magazine it was called hay pinocchio rug. After my diy weaving project i felt like i needed another challenge so i decided to tackle another large scale project that s been on my list a diy rug from scratch. Next these felt spiral mats form the bases of the diy felt rug.