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Rug-making is an ancient craft, and covers a variety of techniques.

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Braided

Braided rugs are made by sewing many little strips of cloth together into longer strips. The long strips are then braided together, sewn at the ends, coiled around in a circular or oval pattern, and sewn together at the edges to hold it in its circular pattern.

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Hooking

Similar to latch hooked rugs, hooked rugs are made by pulling strips of yarn or frabric through a stiff woven base.

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Latch-Hook

Latch hook rugs are made by pulling of fixed-length string of yarn through a stiff, perforated base. The strings of yarn are looped around using a tool and secured tighly to the cross-sections of the base. Different color pieces of yarn can be used to form an image when completed.


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Rag Rugs

Rag rugs were commonly made in households up to the middle of the 20th century by using odd scraps of fabric on a background of old sacking.

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Needlepunch

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Prodded

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Woven

Woven rugs include both flat rugs (for example kilims) and pile rugs.

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Yarn Sewn






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