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Scatter rug hand woven with hand cut new strips of fabric teal blue

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Teal blue off white navy and white beige hand cut cotton fabrics  On a natural white warp  24 x 36  2 feet by 3 feet $120 plus sh  Close up of a section of the rag rug  More of the rag rug  It is called a rag rug here in New England  What it refers to in this scatter rug  Is that there are strips of cloth cut and placed inside a warp or in between the cotton threads while under tension on a loom My particular loom is a floor loom 60 inches wide  I can create different width in size rugs and go for how ever long. the rug needs to be I created this rug 2 feet wide and went 40 inches long  When I cut the rug off the loom it shrunk like a rubber band being released from under tension  So I lost 4 inches as the material and yarn shrunk up immediately  I added at the ends a woven hem keeping all the fabric strips in place . As I sit at the loom I pick out the colors as I go  If you like this rug I have put it up as a listing on ...