Famous of late: old school rag rugs are beginning to flip up in all types of settings—and looking out each cozy and recent. Right here’s a roundup of favourite woven and braided modern examples plus two classic variations, all created from worn-out and scrap materials. Helpful and searching for a challenge? Think about placing your individual castoffs to inventive reuse: right here’s a very good tutorial on methods to flip rags to rugs.
Flatweave Rag Rugs
Above: The Vermont Nation Retailer’s cotton Sturbridge Woven Rag Rugs are available in a variety of colours as 24-by-36-inch mats for $24.95, and 24-by-72-inch runners for $39.95. Above: Woven from previous denims, Recycled Denim Rugs, measuring roughly 60-by-90 centimeters (23.6-by-35.4 inches) are £22 from UK reclamation champions Baileys Residence. Above: This 33-by-22-inch Early American Rag Rug, $195, is one among a number of classic examples out there at Nickey Kehoe in Los Angeles. Above: Brooklyn vintage textile specialist Sharktooth at all times has an attention-grabbing array of rag rugs. Included within the present stock: this midcentury cotton 25-by-76 inch Swedish Runner, $450. For extra from Sharktooth, see the submit we did with proprietor Kellen Tucker on Clear Woolen Blankets. Above: Sprint & Albert gives an array of woven-in-India rag rugs, together with this Denim Vast Stripe Rug out there in seven sizes, beginning at 2-by-3 ft for $48.
Braided Rag Rugs
Above: Our newest favourite choices from Philadelphia furnishings and lighting firm Lostine: the work of artist Olly Williams who makes use of previous suiting material to make his one-of-a-kind designs. Olly’s 36-inch Spherical Rag Rug in Cobalt is $300. An outline from Olly: “I keep in mind the 2 rugs that graced the naked flooring of our Missouri farmhouse within the 1930’s. They have been made by my mom who turned worn-out wool clothes into strips and crocheted them. Quickly after I retired in my seventies, I noticed a package for crocheting rag rugs. The wooden crochet hook jogged my memory of the one my mom created from a hickory buggy wheel spoke. I purchased the package and now effectively into my nineties I’ve determined to make it a household custom.” Above: This heavyweight Rag Rug is made in Sweden by a design duo who use textile producers’ cotton jersey leftovers that will in any other case get tossed. It measures 98-by-32-inches, and is $1,105 from March in San Francisco. Above: One other Olly Williams suiting material design from Lostine, Olly’s Rectangular Rag Rug in Black, Grey, and Navy is roughly 49-by-27 inches; $300.
