Wool strips for Rug braiding

Class Title: Skills for Braiding Wool Rugs

Instructor: Christine Manges

Class Day/Time: Friday, 12:30 to 3:30 pm

Class Length: 3 hours

Class Fee: $40.00

Class Description:

Discover the basic skills necessary for braiding round wool rugs! Discover braiding techniques such as for example braiding right, braiding corners, including fabric strips, and lacing the braids collectively nicely to help keep your project flat. Finish a small 6” braided coffee mat with a fringe, or carry on braiding at home to make a chair pad, or a sizable round carpet. Aided by the skills learned in course, it is possible to keep enlarging any project successfully in the home if desired. Products will likely make a 6” pad; create your mat larger by recycling wool clothes as our grandmothers did, or by buying wool strips.

If there is time, we shall cover the annals of carpet braiding, that will be an uniquely American art.

Registration necessary, class dimensions limited to 16

Supplies needed: #13 or #16 tapestry needle, sewing scissors, safety-pin, & clothespin (the sort with a spring). Rug table clamp may be borrowed for class.

Materials cost: $10.00 for complete Kit which includes pre-pressed wool strips of three colors sewn into a T-start, lacing cable, training booklet includes guidelines for a coffee-sized mat, or a chair pad, or a circular braided rug. Materials charge is payable to instructor in course.