Tying - Hooking - Braiding Rugs Videos

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Order HOOKING & BRAIDING with Joan Moshimer & Verna Cox $44.95  VHS Tape 959

This comprehensive video teaches the basic techniques in making a traditional hand-hooked rug from planning to completion. Traditional hand hooked rugs are made from strips of wool fabric, and the hook is held above the surface, the wool strip below and it is pulled to the surface, forming a loop. This is different from the more contemporary "punch needle" approach. You will learn ways to dye fabrics, color tips, and finishing & backing tips that are unique to hooked rugs with braided edges. And, you will learn rug braiding techniques, and how to attach braiding around a hooked center. 240 minutes

Order RUG BRAIDING - Oval Rugs with Verna Cox VHS Tape 954  $29.95

Verna shares 30 years of expertise as she guides you, step-by-step through the process of making a 2' x 3' oval rug from strips of wool fabric. Learn about types of materials, tools, how to figure quantity of materials needed. Then it's on to planning, how to braid, starting the rug, creating the "T", braiding double corners, using a lacer and lacing thread, regular lacing, splicing the lacing thread, following color patterns, adding new colors, increasing, tapering and butting the last rows, plus tips on catching and correcting mistakes. 120 minutes

Order RUG BRAIDING - Rectangular Rugs with Verna Cox $34.95  VHS Tape 904

Includes all the basics of Braiding, plus techniques unique to square/rectangular rugs, how to maintain square corners, tips on butting, color patterning, ric rac & arrowhead techniques. 180 minutes

Order RUG BRAIDING - Round Rugs with Verna Cox $34.95  VHS Tape 908

All the basics, plus tips on color changing, how to eliminate cupping and ruffling and lots of information on color planning, plus tips on techniques unique to round rugs.  180 minutes

Order How 2 Shirret  VHS Tape 957 $25

Step-by-step lessons for Shirrét stitching, cutting old and new fabric, filling the needle with strips to turn them into folds, using the tiniest scraps without sewing the fabric, using continuous strips with half and whole folds, beginning the chain stitch row, Shirrét stitch-making in rows, turning at the end of rows, bridging up to next level, making the finish row and increasing at corners of a square or rectangle.

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