Try out these tips for how to make a 4 strand braided rug with leftover fabric scraps. Follow these step-by-step illustrations for how to make a braided rag rug. Here’s an attractive, old-fashioned ...

DIY shag rugs made of old clothes are durable, attractive, easy to care for, and can be machine sewn in a few hours. After years of looking for the most durable, yet simplest homemade rugs to wash, I ...

Participants can learn the tradition of grain painting wood at a one-day workshop scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m. at the Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Road, ...

If you haven”t heard about the plastic trash vortex swirling slowly in the Pacific Ocean northeast of Hawaii, you soon will. Some say it”s the size of Texas, threatening great numbers of sea creatures ...

Historically, when your clothes were beyond repair, they were shredded up and made into something else - usually rugs and baskets. Traditionally a new hearth rug would be put out on Christmas eve, the ...

ROCK SPRINGS — Mary Huff provided instruction on making rag rugs during the Busy Hands Section meeting of the Woman's Club of Rock Springs. She provided the rags and crochet hooks needed if members ...

Rag rugs, the kind Grandma used to make from worn-out sheets and bits of cloth, may seem like relics from a bygone era, but they hold valuable modern-day lessons.

Mary Bajcz, who came to the Detroit News Stitch-Together in May, has an amazing talent for turning scraps of wool fabric, leftover yarn and discarded wool garments into beautifully handcrafted rag ...