How To Bind A Hooked Rug

This tutorial shows you how to bind off your Hooked rug. The tutorial is easy to follow with photos to guide you. This is the perfect way to finish off your hooked rug. Perfect for binding off the edges before you frame it or hang it up. You can read the full tutorial here. When you use cord/roping, you can only tighten the yarn as far as the cord will allow, thus the binding is uniform and constant.

Do you have a preferred way to bind off your hooked rugs? make sure to share it with us below.  My very favorite way to finish a mat is called a whipped edge. I have not tried this technique with the yarn yet though. I love the idea of having my rug look clean and study and lay flat so that it could hang or be framed.

In the nineteenth century, the earliest kinds of hooked carpets were discovered in Yorkshire, England. Mill workers gathered mill leftovers, generally long strands of yarn, and pushed them through a backing to make a rug.

Here is a video also showing you 4 different techniques for binding a latch-hooked rug.

 

Rug hooking has a history of nearly 200 years and combines elements of art and craft.
The following are the fundamental rug hooking supplies:

The background materials of choice are linen and burlap. A rug warp can also be used as a backing.

A frame or hoop to keep your work in place.

A hook for a rug.

Wool strips ranging in width from 5/32 inch to 1/2 inch.

Scissors.

There is a pattern. You may buy rug hooking patterns or utilize a free pattern.