Rag Rugs Tour
1. Tambour
2. Shirred 
3. Standing wool

4. Knitted
5. Flat Wrap
6. Amish Knot

7. Chain Braids
8. Broomstick & String Crochet
9. Crocheted

10. Fabric Tapestry
11. Anchored Loop
12. Hooked, Poked, Prodded, Bodkin

13. Needleworked
14. Toothbrush rugs
15. Braided rugs

16. Knotted & strung shags
17. Loom woven
18. Patched (penny rugs) & sewn shags
19. Frame made rugs
20. Wagon wheel & frame braids 
21. Odds 'n ends

S-9: ANCHORED LOOP STARTER SET
Make a delightful anchored loop rug with your own cotton strip and this set. It includes Bulletin #6: Anchored Loop Rugs; a locker hook; a 6-inch lacing needle; and an 18" X 24" rug canvas. Separately these are a $13.30 value!

Bulletin #6: ANCHORED LOOP RUGS (American Locker Hooking with Rags)
This long awaited bulletin covers the American Anchored Loop technique for making these wonderful traditional rugs on burlap or canvas. Step by step instructions and photos from preparing fabric strip for rugmaking to creating and finishing your own Anchored Loop Rug. Use either the traditional rug hook and lacing needle for these rugs or a locker hook with rug canvas.

LACING NEEDLES 
For all of the rugs made with folded cotton strips (crocheted, bohemian braids, chain braids, knitted, etc.) there will always be tag ends of fabric strip that have to be worked back into the rug at the finish. Lacing needles make the work easy. For cotton braided rugs, the needls can be used with fabric strip to join the braids for a super-strong construction. Lacing needles are also the primary tools needed to make Flat Wrap and Amish Knot rugs, and can be used as "toothbrush" tools for naalbinding and related rugs. 

6" Steel lacing needle with curved, blunt tip
these needles are just the best lacing needle we've found. The eye will take 1-1/2" cotton strip for lacing and the curved tip makes lacing cotton braided rugs much easier than using straight lacing needles. 
6" Plastic lacing needle
We've carried these needles for years and though the needles are plastic, they do stand up to use for quite a long time. The eye is large enough for 1-1/2" fabric strip.

TRADITIONAL RUG HOOKS
These are the traditional rug hooks with wooden handles. The shaft size (3.5mm) is suited to making anchored loop rugs on either canvas or burlap. (Use with a lacing needle.)

LOCKER HOOKS FOR "ANCHORED LOOP" RUGS
Steel hooks with crochet hook at one end and eye at the other. These are the primary tool for making anchored loop rugs.

"REMBRANDT" RUG CANVAS
It is really much easier for the beginner to make their first anchored loop rug on canvas, instead of burlap. This premium rug canvas has appx. 1/4 inch holes making it ideal for rugmaking. Precut, natural color, Sizes are approximate. Ready to use.)

 
 
 

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