Nope. I'm not from Somerset so will ask hubby or you will tell me? Is it like a rag rug or something like that ?
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You are right Hayles it is a rag rug.
The source which held a description was on the Australian Newspapers "Trove" site.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2564340
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I've seen those rugs from time to time.
This was one story on the list...
I remember my grandmother making these rugs also, but, this was in Newcastle upon Tyne, she used to cut all our old clothes into strips which she then fed in and out of hessian using a hook, the hessian was stretched very tightly in a frame, rather like a tapestry frame but much, much bigger, the poles must have been over 6ft long.? Sometimes she would just do lines, but more often she would do shapes sometimes surrounded by a darker line, they always looked really nice and considering that they were made out of old well worn material they lasted for years.
When she moved to her bungalow in Somerset she decided that she was too old to make any more rugs so she used the poles to edge a flower bed, I've often wondered what the new owners made of these strange poles and if they puzzled over what they were used for!
Margaret.
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