Rug making materials

Rug-making materials are of the simplest, but just as the artist needs the best and most suitable paint, canvas and brushes for his particular purpose, so does the creative rug maker need the best wool, canvas and needles.

This sounds obvious but it is surprising how often lack of care in the selection of materials ends in much labour being wasted on second-rate results.

Wool
It is essential that this should be of the best quality with no admixture of cotton. Those who tried to make rugs in the late 1940s will remember only too well how impossible it was to produce good ones from the poor post-war so-called wool.

The majority of firms now selling rug wool are very reliable but if there is any doubt as to its being pure wool this is easily tested by putting a match to the cut end of a small length—it should smoulder, not burn.