Rag Rug Repair
If I were to pick one item to symbolize
doing the best you can with what you have to make something beautiful, it would
be a rag rug.
Visually they are beautiful. If it
is a circular shaped rug it naturally moves your eyes. And if the construction does not move your
eye, the change in colors, the variety, naturally keeps the eyes interested
longer than an item like a rug normally does.
To illustrate this point, think of when you look at a rug hanging in a
store. Or even when the rug is rolled up
with a picture of what the rug looks like attached to the outside of the
rug. How long do you think you look at
each design before you move on to look at the next design in the stack?
I had an art professor once who
said you had five seconds to engage the viewer.
A rag rug almost demands you spend longer than the average of five
second because there is too much visual information to be processed in that
amount of time. A rag rug is not a
repeated pattern that the viewer can subconsciously
say to themselves, “Oh, ok, I can see the pattern, next.”
Economically, they are wonderful as
well. A person takes materials;
t-shirts, jeans, old kitchen towel, or even holey socks and makes something
useful. Regardless of the material that
is chosen, the materials are not purchased for the project, they are what’s lying
around that a person can’t use for anything else. Rags are at times considered the dregs of
materials. The Only cost comes in thread or yarn and the time spent to create
it. I won’t bother listing all the
places people use rugs to make their lives more comfortable or sometimes even safer;
like a bath rug.
Some people have lists of places
they want to go before they die or things they want to do. On my list is to make my own rag rug.
This rag rug I did not make. I was blessed enough to be given it by a
friend who didn’t want hers around anymore.
It needed a few repairs; I spent just over an hour to repair the parts
where it was coming apart. Threw repairing
it, I now think I will have a better idea how to construct one from scratch. For now though, I will have to be content
with repairing oneJ. Some day however, I will make one.
Materials
scraps yarn- left over from another project o.oo
Total Cost
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