Carpets of several hundred, or even thousands of years, were created exclusively by hand. Even now, when there is every opportunity to automate this process, such a decor is still relevant. You can make a do-it-yourself rug from almost anything - threads, rags, stockings, pieces of jeans, plastic caps, old T-shirts, sea pebbles. It is important that the carpet is consistent with the general style of the room, organically combined with other objects.
Making a homemade doormat is an easy way to express yourself with needlework. The original product, made by yourself, will decorate any interior, will surprise guests. Production costs, in most cases, are minimized here - the most expensive is the luminous decor, for which you need to purchase a couple of meters of LED strip. Making a rug from all kinds of corks, lids will only make you visit a few friends after the holidays in order to collect more suitable raw materials. Textured object, in addition to decorative purposes, is able to create a light massage effect.
The finished carpet is laid on the floor so that it is warm to walk on, sit on it, hang on the wall, creating a practical decor with organizer pockets.
Materials, their properties for a homemade rug
The materials used depend solely on the imagination, the practical skills of the master, for example:
multi-colored yarn;
polymer twine, sisal;
jute or hemp rope;
belts made of leather, leatherette, textile;
pieces of towels, jeans;
nylon tights;
knitted t-shirts, cut into stripes;
clothing labels;
remnants of faux fur;
corks of champagne, wine;
caps for plastic bottles;
sea, river pebbles;
beer can lids;
LED Strip Light;
colored shreds;
plastic bags;
plastic bottles, also cut into strips;
varnished wood saw cuts;
real moss.
Each of the materials has its advantages:
the remnants of all kinds of textiles from old T-shirts, pants, tights are abundant in every house - they are usually thrown away, and weaving a rug will give such waste a new life;
knitting threads, small balls of which will inevitably remain in the manufacture of various products, are also unlikely to be suitable for anything - if only for a small doormat;
from lids that can only be handed over for meager pennies to a plastic collection point or to make an original product for a bathroom, hallway;
smooth pebbles, about the same size, are also suitable for bedding in the shower, the original door mat in the apartment, a private mansion;
knitted from colored thread products are laid on the floor in the nursery - for kids it is convenient to play with them;
wine corks do not absorb moisture, mold and fungus do not start on them, the material is pleasant to the touch.
Ideas, handicraft workshops
The methods for making rugs are very diverse: gluing parts on a dense base (cardboard, linoleum, rubber), stitching, interlacing multi-colored pieces with each other, crocheting or fingers, embroidery, weaving on a frame, a mini-machine, patchwork technique. Different carpets are suitable for different interior styles:
Scandinavian - from white, beige pompons or large knits in bright colors;
boho - from colored shreds using the patchwork technique or woven from knitted braids;
ecological - knitted from linen threads, hemp rope, made using the macrame technique;
hi-tech - filamentous, with a ribbon of LEDs woven into it;
country - woven on a frame, hoop, usually checkered;
loft - from belts, leather pieces fastened with threads or a stapler;
Baroque - the carpet is woven, knitted of threads, richly decorated with fringe, flowers from ribbons, etc.
The product for wet rooms, as well as a nursery, is made anti-slip.
Leather belt mat
A small doormat from belts is very durable, durable, especially if the straps are leather. Such a thing will fit perfectly into the styles of loft, retro, industrial or even classic. To work, you will need at least 9-12 belts, an awl or punch for leather products, twine or a strong thread.
Buckles must be removed, cut the belts so that they are the same in length. Holes are made at the edges of the long sides every three to four cm. A cord is passed through them crosswise, fastening the parts together.Alternatively, the straps are fastened with a stapler with staples.
Belts can also be glued to the base of fabric, rubber, cut into squares, weave from them, fastening only around the perimeter. If the details are glued to the squares of plywood, fiberboard, an original semblance of “leather parquet” will come out.
Doormat
For the manufacture you will need a textile or plastic mesh, cut into narrow ribbons knitwear or colored yarn, scissors. Pieces of 6-10 cm long are made of threads, fabric, each of them is threaded through the net, tied to a knot so that both ends are on the same side. The more often the threads are threaded, the more fluffy the rug will come out. If there are pieces of different colors, inscriptions are displayed on the carpet, whole pictures of various subjects are created, intricate patterns, symbols, hieroglyphs, initial letters.
There is another option for which you will need several tens of meters of fringe purchased or hand-made. The latter is sewn onto a dense fabric of the desired size, starting from the edge of the future carpet.
Terry towel
A rug of terry towels cut into tapes comes out soft, pleasant to the touch - it is often placed in the bathroom, the nursery, and a romantic interior is decorated. For the manufacture you need two or four towels, bathrobes, scissors, threads, needles, pins. In the course of work, towels are cut into strips, 5-7 cm wide, so that the strips are long, they are gradually increased by stitching with each other. In total, it is required to make three ribbons from which a long braid is woven, which is twisted in a spiral from the center, fastened with inconspicuous stitches. Tip: instead of towels, you can use any knitwear.
Woven from flaps with a hoop, frame
The large plastic hoop, originally designed for gymnastics, is ideal for creating a round patchwork doormat. For a square, rectangular product, a wooden frame is used.Instead of a hoop, a circle of corrugated cardboard is sometimes used.
First, you should sort out the old colored knitwear - stretched T-shirts, tight leggings, sweatpants and more. Narrow ribbons are pulled onto the base, crosswise crossing each other in the middle, from where weaving is made. Weave with one long ribbon, spend it from the bottom, then from the top of the warp, which can also be made of rope, twine, linen cord. At the end of the work, the warp threads are cut, knotted.
Having fastened together three or four or more of these round things, it is easy to get a unique path for a long corridor. It is important not to pull the “threads” of the warp too tight so that the finished product does not deform.
Braided braid
The pigtail is woven from a cord, polymer twine, knitted tape, cut into strips of plastic bags. The latter option is optimal for the kitchen, workshop, decorate the poor interior style of art-belief. For work, a braid of three or four ribbons is woven, each of which from time to time is increased, the previous row with the next is fastened with threads. This item is round or oval. To create a square, rectangle, the pigtail is laid in straight rows from edge to edge.
The perimeter of the finished carpet is decorated with knitted lace, fringe.
Pompom mats
For a fluffy doormat from pompons, you need a building mesh of a suitable size or a piece of burlap. This item is not very practical, but incredibly beautiful. It is ideal for a cozy bedroom, a nursery, a living room. First, you need to make a lot of colored pompons - for this, two identical “bagels” are cut out of cardboard, then they are folded together, wrapped with threads, which are then cut along the outer edge, tying in the middle.
Next, pompons, which will take several hundred, are sewn to the mesh, textile canvas. After finishing work, the inside with the nodules is covered with a cloth.To make the product look textured, pompoms are made of different sizes, but as lush as possible. The shape of such a carpet is made almost any: the pompon imitation of the skin of a bear, leopard, zebra looks very original.
Knitted textile rugs
For knitting, woolen, cotton, acrylic threads, knitting needles or a hook of the appropriate thickness are suitable. The product, made with the help of knitting needles, is hand-knitted, decorated with textured braids, decorating the Scandinavian, classic, rustic, modernist interiors. Such a rug creates a feeling of comfort, warmth, which is especially important in the winter.
The item made of knitted or crocheted “sleeves” looks interesting. Their length, width is selected depending on the expected size of the carpet. Details are connected to each other with plain weave, tied with a common rectangular "frame".
Openwork star rug, flower rug, more like a lace napkin, crochet. The original idea is a rug of many homogeneous knitted details. In this case, you need to connect several dozen squares, circles, rhombs, subsequently bonding them to each other. The latter option, assembled from voluminous flowers, roses, can decorate the luxurious interiors of Baroque, Gothic, Empire style.
For knitting a waterproof carpet, polymer bags are used, selected in color.
Mat from old jeans
To sew a rug using the patchwork technique, jeans will take a lot. All of it must be cut into squares, rectangles, hexagons of the same size, connecting using a manual or machine line. A unique carpet-sun will come out if pieces are cut out of jeans in the form of sectors - depending on the size of the “sun”, they will need six to twelve pieces. A circle is sewn in the middle.
The floor decor from pentagonal jeans pockets, belts from which it is not even necessary to remove stripes labels looks interesting. You can also cut the entire denim into thin ribbons by simply and quickly crocheting the carpet. It is easy to create a fluffy rug from jeans, a product created using plain weave, as well as made in a mixed technique.
Another way to create a carpet: origami corners are folded from squares cut from jeans, fastened row by row with the help of threads. A textile circle is used as the first row.
If you plan to make a wall-mounted decor item, jeans pockets are sewn onto it, which store all kinds of little things - pencils, pens, combs, hairpins, small toys.
From nylon tights
A rug with knots using the macrame technique is made of old stockings, colored nylon tights that are cut into wide stripes or used whole. For work, you need at least ten nylon objects, which are distributed in a row, fixed with tape. Next, on each ribbon a simple knot is tied or the strips are connected in pairs by flat knots. Weaving continues until the desired size is reached.
An interesting product from burlap, another dense textile, decorated with braids, plaits, flowers from colored tights sewn together. Such a jellyfish rug may not have a foundation, fitting, fastened with asymmetric loops. Another of the tights can easily be crocheted, on knitting needles, bobbins.
Wine corks for making carpet
Wine corks are a unique material. Due to certain properties, a practical carpet of them is suitable for wet rooms of a toilet, bathroom, kitchen, garden gazebo, outdoor area. It’s nice to walk on such a rug with bare feet, leaving the shower, getting out of bed - the product feels warm to the touch.
To create a thing you need:
100-200 clean, whole corks;
sharp knife;
board;
sandpaper;
rubber base;
PVA glue.
Corks are washed in soapy water with bleach, left to dry. Next, each cork is cut into two halves along, if the sections are uneven, they are sanded with sandpaper. After the corks are glued onto the base of a suitable size - in rows, staggered, in a spiral, etc. The product is made in the shape of a circle, oval, four-hexagonal, dried in the sun.
To make the item waterproof, it is treated with sealants.
From jeans labels
Sewing this carpet, which can decorate a retro interior, a room in the style of pop art, loft, requires a huge number of stripes - at least 50, or even 150 pieces. The labels are sewn onto a dense fabric (manually or by a sewing machine), glued to a rubber base, and fastened with a stapler. Bonding parts is permissible in the form of "brickwork", "Christmas tree", in a spiral, randomly.
Pebble rug
Sea or river pebbles - smooth pebbles, will help create a real natural atmosphere, decorating the apartment in an eco-style. It’s nice, it’s useful to walk barefoot, especially for people with flat feet, other foot problems.
All kinds of patterns, inscriptions are laid out from pebbles of different colors, sizes. For manufacturing, you need a sufficient amount of flat pebbles, an adhesive gun, a base made of rubber, textile, cork, etc. It is important to choose all the details in shape, size, so that there are no large gaps.
If suitable pebbles could not be collected on the seashore, they are purchased in a store.
Backlit mat
The luminous rug night lamp - the most impressive handicraft for the house. It is made of thick yarn or twine, which is tied into a spiral twisted LED strip. The work is done with a thick hook, relatively thin, preferably light threads. The long "tail" of such a rug can go further, laying along the perimeter of the room, or forming a pattern on the wall.
Knitting is carried out from the center, single crochet, which fit only 8-15 rows. LED cord (it will require a minimum of 4-9 meters), add in the second or third row.
The LED element must be of a closed type, both monophonic and multicolor.
Moss mat
This rug is suitable for outdoor areas in the garden, excessively humid rooms. This is a unique way to create at home a small corner of nature - the most environmentally friendly, pleasant in terms of tactile sensations. The purchased base consists of latex, it has many cells, each of which contains a piece of live moss, which must be periodically sprayed with water.
From foam rubber or synthetic winterizer, for children
Making a developing puzzle mat is a laborious undertaking, but the result will be unique. Its implementation requires foam, knitted fabric, threads, needles, scissors. Details similar to elements from the Tetris game are cut out of the foam rubber, a cover of the corresponding shape is sewn on each of them. All parts are made so that in the "assembled" form, the product does not break up into components.
Another way is to cut out a large leaf from the fabric that resembles maple, birch, plantain, fit it with a cover of the appropriate shape, sew through it, and embroider the “veins”. This carpet reminds a figured quilt.
To make the baby more interesting, funny faces, handles, legs, paws are embroidered on each “brick”.
Conclusion
A round or square, knitted, woven or “stone” homemade rug is the easiest way to decorate your home with the least labor, finance. The item is made small, located near the bed, places of daytime rest, or occupies almost the entire room, having an area of up to several tens of meters. Step-by-step master classes with patterns, diagrams, detailed descriptions of the manual production of floor products of any size, shape, are easy to find on the websites of needlework, home economics, as well as on the pages of the corresponding print media.
Carpets of several hundred, or even thousands of years, were created exclusively by hand. Even now, when there is every opportunity to automate this process, such a decor is still relevant. You can make a do-it-yourself rug from almost anything - threads, rags, stockings, pieces of jeans, plastic caps, old T-shirts, sea pebbles. It is important that the carpet is consistent with the general style of the room, organically combined with other objects.
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Features, Benefits
Making a homemade doormat is an easy way to express yourself with needlework. The original product, made by yourself, will decorate any interior, will surprise guests. Production costs, in most cases, are minimized here - the most expensive is the luminous decor, for which you need to purchase a couple of meters of LED strip. Making a rug from all kinds of corks, lids will only make you visit a few friends after the holidays in order to collect more suitable raw materials. Textured object, in addition to decorative purposes, is able to create a light massage effect.
Materials, their properties for a homemade rug
The materials used depend solely on the imagination, the practical skills of the master, for example:
Each of the materials has its advantages:
Ideas, handicraft workshops
The methods for making rugs are very diverse: gluing parts on a dense base (cardboard, linoleum, rubber), stitching, interlacing multi-colored pieces with each other, crocheting or fingers, embroidery, weaving on a frame, a mini-machine, patchwork technique.
Different carpets are suitable for different interior styles:
Leather belt mat
A small doormat from belts is very durable, durable, especially if the straps are leather. Such a thing will fit perfectly into the styles of loft, retro, industrial or even classic. To work, you will need at least 9-12 belts, an awl or punch for leather products, twine or a strong thread.
Buckles must be removed, cut the belts so that they are the same in length. Holes are made at the edges of the long sides every three to four cm. A cord is passed through them crosswise, fastening the parts together.Alternatively, the straps are fastened with a stapler with staples.
Doormat
For the manufacture you will need a textile or plastic mesh, cut into narrow ribbons knitwear or colored yarn, scissors. Pieces of 6-10 cm long are made of threads, fabric, each of them is threaded through the net, tied to a knot so that both ends are on the same side. The more often the threads are threaded, the more fluffy the rug will come out. If there are pieces of different colors, inscriptions are displayed on the carpet, whole pictures of various subjects are created, intricate patterns, symbols, hieroglyphs, initial letters.
There is another option for which you will need several tens of meters of fringe purchased or hand-made. The latter is sewn onto a dense fabric of the desired size, starting from the edge of the future carpet.
Terry towel
A rug of terry towels cut into tapes comes out soft, pleasant to the touch - it is often placed in the bathroom, the nursery, and a romantic interior is decorated. For the manufacture you need two or four towels, bathrobes, scissors, threads, needles, pins. In the course of work, towels are cut into strips, 5-7 cm wide, so that the strips are long, they are gradually increased by stitching with each other. In total, it is required to make three ribbons from which a long braid is woven, which is twisted in a spiral from the center, fastened with inconspicuous stitches.
Tip: instead of towels, you can use any knitwear.
Woven from flaps with a hoop, frame
The large plastic hoop, originally designed for gymnastics, is ideal for creating a round patchwork doormat. For a square, rectangular product, a wooden frame is used.Instead of a hoop, a circle of corrugated cardboard is sometimes used.
First, you should sort out the old colored knitwear - stretched T-shirts, tight leggings, sweatpants and more. Narrow ribbons are pulled onto the base, crosswise crossing each other in the middle, from where weaving is made. Weave with one long ribbon, spend it from the bottom, then from the top of the warp, which can also be made of rope, twine, linen cord. At the end of the work, the warp threads are cut, knotted.
Braided braid
The pigtail is woven from a cord, polymer twine, knitted tape, cut into strips of plastic bags. The latter option is optimal for the kitchen, workshop, decorate the poor interior style of art-belief. For work, a braid of three or four ribbons is woven, each of which from time to time is increased, the previous row with the next is fastened with threads. This item is round or oval. To create a square, rectangle, the pigtail is laid in straight rows from edge to edge.
Pompom mats
For a fluffy doormat from pompons, you need a building mesh of a suitable size or a piece of burlap. This item is not very practical, but incredibly beautiful. It is ideal for a cozy bedroom, a nursery, a living room. First, you need to make a lot of colored pompons - for this, two identical “bagels” are cut out of cardboard, then they are folded together, wrapped with threads, which are then cut along the outer edge, tying in the middle.
Next, pompons, which will take several hundred, are sewn to the mesh, textile canvas. After finishing work, the inside with the nodules is covered with a cloth.To make the product look textured, pompoms are made of different sizes, but as lush as possible. The shape of such a carpet is made almost any: the pompon imitation of the skin of a bear, leopard, zebra looks very original.
Knitted textile rugs
For knitting, woolen, cotton, acrylic threads, knitting needles or a hook of the appropriate thickness are suitable. The product, made with the help of knitting needles, is hand-knitted, decorated with textured braids, decorating the Scandinavian, classic, rustic, modernist interiors. Such a rug creates a feeling of comfort, warmth, which is especially important in the winter.
The item made of knitted or crocheted “sleeves” looks interesting. Their length, width is selected depending on the expected size of the carpet. Details are connected to each other with plain weave, tied with a common rectangular "frame".
Openwork star rug, flower rug, more like a lace napkin, crochet. The original idea is a rug of many homogeneous knitted details. In this case, you need to connect several dozen squares, circles, rhombs, subsequently bonding them to each other. The latter option, assembled from voluminous flowers, roses, can decorate the luxurious interiors of Baroque, Gothic, Empire style.
Mat from old jeans
To sew a rug using the patchwork technique, jeans will take a lot. All of it must be cut into squares, rectangles, hexagons of the same size, connecting using a manual or machine line. A unique carpet-sun will come out if pieces are cut out of jeans in the form of sectors - depending on the size of the “sun”, they will need six to twelve pieces. A circle is sewn in the middle.
The floor decor from pentagonal jeans pockets, belts from which it is not even necessary to remove stripes labels looks interesting. You can also cut the entire denim into thin ribbons by simply and quickly crocheting the carpet. It is easy to create a fluffy rug from jeans, a product created using plain weave, as well as made in a mixed technique.
Another way to create a carpet: origami corners are folded from squares cut from jeans, fastened row by row with the help of threads. A textile circle is used as the first row.
From nylon tights
A rug with knots using the macrame technique is made of old stockings, colored nylon tights that are cut into wide stripes or used whole. For work, you need at least ten nylon objects, which are distributed in a row, fixed with tape. Next, on each ribbon a simple knot is tied or the strips are connected in pairs by flat knots. Weaving continues until the desired size is reached.
An interesting product from burlap, another dense textile, decorated with braids, plaits, flowers from colored tights sewn together. Such a jellyfish rug may not have a foundation, fitting, fastened with asymmetric loops. Another of the tights can easily be crocheted, on knitting needles, bobbins.
Wine corks for making carpet
Wine corks are a unique material. Due to certain properties, a practical carpet of them is suitable for wet rooms of a toilet, bathroom, kitchen, garden gazebo, outdoor area. It’s nice to walk on such a rug with bare feet, leaving the shower, getting out of bed - the product feels warm to the touch.
To create a thing you need:
Corks are washed in soapy water with bleach, left to dry. Next, each cork is cut into two halves along, if the sections are uneven, they are sanded with sandpaper. After the corks are glued onto the base of a suitable size - in rows, staggered, in a spiral, etc. The product is made in the shape of a circle, oval, four-hexagonal, dried in the sun.
From jeans labels
Sewing this carpet, which can decorate a retro interior, a room in the style of pop art, loft, requires a huge number of stripes - at least 50, or even 150 pieces. The labels are sewn onto a dense fabric (manually or by a sewing machine), glued to a rubber base, and fastened with a stapler. Bonding parts is permissible in the form of "brickwork", "Christmas tree", in a spiral, randomly.
Pebble rug
Sea or river pebbles - smooth pebbles, will help create a real natural atmosphere, decorating the apartment in an eco-style. It’s nice, it’s useful to walk barefoot, especially for people with flat feet, other foot problems.
All kinds of patterns, inscriptions are laid out from pebbles of different colors, sizes. For manufacturing, you need a sufficient amount of flat pebbles, an adhesive gun, a base made of rubber, textile, cork, etc. It is important to choose all the details in shape, size, so that there are no large gaps.
Backlit mat
The luminous rug night lamp - the most impressive handicraft for the house. It is made of thick yarn or twine, which is tied into a spiral twisted LED strip. The work is done with a thick hook, relatively thin, preferably light threads. The long "tail" of such a rug can go further, laying along the perimeter of the room, or forming a pattern on the wall.
Knitting is carried out from the center, single crochet, which fit only 8-15 rows. LED cord (it will require a minimum of 4-9 meters), add in the second or third row.
Moss mat
This rug is suitable for outdoor areas in the garden, excessively humid rooms. This is a unique way to create at home a small corner of nature - the most environmentally friendly, pleasant in terms of tactile sensations. The purchased base consists of latex, it has many cells, each of which contains a piece of live moss, which must be periodically sprayed with water.
From foam rubber or synthetic winterizer, for children
Making a developing puzzle mat is a laborious undertaking, but the result will be unique. Its implementation requires foam, knitted fabric, threads, needles, scissors. Details similar to elements from the Tetris game are cut out of the foam rubber, a cover of the corresponding shape is sewn on each of them. All parts are made so that in the "assembled" form, the product does not break up into components.
Another way is to cut out a large leaf from the fabric that resembles maple, birch, plantain, fit it with a cover of the appropriate shape, sew through it, and embroider the “veins”. This carpet reminds a figured quilt.
Conclusion
A round or square, knitted, woven or “stone” homemade rug is the easiest way to decorate your home with the least labor, finance. The item is made small, located near the bed, places of daytime rest, or occupies almost the entire room, having an area of up to several tens of meters. Step-by-step master classes with patterns, diagrams, detailed descriptions of the manual production of floor products of any size, shape, are easy to find on the websites of needlework, home economics, as well as on the pages of the corresponding print media.