How to Make a Rug Pattern on a Frame Loom

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Debbie Huglin Vogel and I'm here with Expert Village to help show you how to make a rag rug on a hand-made loom. Now, I really like this pattern. And this is all just over and under weave. But now, here in the center of the rug, I'd like it to have a little pattern. So, what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to take every three, and go over and under. And when I do that, and I lay two layers of it on, it will have more of a checker board pattern right there. So there you can see, there's three on the bottom. There's three on the top. There's three on the bottom. So I want these three on the top. And you'll see, it's a bigger piece of cloth then in there. So, if I get two or three of those layed on, it will be a nice pattern and then I can go back to the plain stuff. Two or three on top. So there you can see there's three on the bottom, two or three on top. There's three. Three on the bottom and the top. The big problem with this is that it's not as strong there. So you don't want to do a pattern like that too much on a rag loom, because we're using such a wide piece of material. When you're using smaller material, like yarn, it really is easy to do that and go in there and make patterns. Three on the bottom, three on the top. And then, after I've got these laid in here like this, I want to make sure that I have the strong part to about where I started the pattern. So, I want to do just single weave, right over here. That's on the bottom, I want it on the top. This one comes up. This one's on the bottom, I want it to come to the top. This one's on the bottom, I want it to come to the top. This one's on the bottom, I want it to come to the top..And then here. So you can actually turn around when you've got a long one, and go the other way. Since this one's on the bottom, I want it to come to the top. In fact, I know that I just want a few to few to go from the bottom to go to the top. So, I can take three here. Bottom, top, bottom, top. Just make sure everything is in the right place. And I can run my thread under it."