Prodding Rug Hooking

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Prodding rug hooking. Hooking and prodding at rugmaking. This technique is perfect for creating beautiful three dimensional blossoms. Proddy is a wonderfully simple old rug making technique. Using your rug hook pull one end of the strip through the fabric very close to your flower center.

How to use a spring hook if making a proddy picture mat thick wool fabric is perfect it gives your rug body and cutting your peices 2 long x 1 2 wide allows the peices to stand up firm keeping the picture in shape. Rugs are created from scraps of wool or other fabrics by simply poking or prodding through a loosely woven linen or other backing. Proddy is an old fashioned british variation of rug hooking using shaped pieces of wool fabric lifted up with a hook wool prod or prodding clasp. This is the glue i use.

Aleene s no sew fabric glue i found at jo ann fabrics. June 1 2012 at 3 49 am i finished a proddy rug this year using up some of the samples that come in the mail selvedge edges and wool that is too thin or thick to use in my hooked rugs. A new free rug hooking pattern is in the works. If the material is thin as in cottons cut them 3 long x 1 wide.

Happy to have inspired you to try prodding. Information for latch hooking locker hooking prodding punch needle rug hooking and making smyrna and ghiordes knots using a latch hook. For other designs you may prefer cutting the peices 3 long x 1 2 wide. Iloverughooking carries all supplies needed for creating beautiful prodded rugs.