rug making

This course is at the request of my daughter. I am sure that I was younger than her when I started my first rug hooking project – a train, and like many things I didn’t finish it. The main requirement for such a project is time and perseverance. It is such a good project for listening to stories to, or sitting around chatting. Which is what people use to do in times long ago.

Those are woman depicted on a vase who are working together on a loom similar to the one we have just been given over a thousand years later… must be a good design. There are Artists who are still using, and inspiring the same techniques today.

Of course a rug (floor, or throw?) is a big project so the kids will be making cushion covers, cat beds, works of art if a rug is too daunting… and what’s more there are lots of different ways of making rugs. So lots of things to try.

• Woven
• Platted
• Tufted
• Twined
• Hooked
• Crocheted

We will be using old t-shirts, (those ones that are too awful, yet clean, to even be given to charity or handed down), as thread. Repurposing at its best.

These sessions are designed for kids to have a go. They do not have to come to all three, however each will be different. The tasks, projects, are opt in. We have the facilities for the kids to start other projects if they see something they prefer.

Skills we’ll be fostering: fine motor, design, colour, hand eye co-ordination, perseverance, social, a connection to history and womens’ work, project management, geometry, creativity…

Day classes: 28th April, 5th and 12th of May.

After-school classes: Thursday 1st, 8th and 15th of May.