How To Hang A Hand Hooked Rug

Hand sew the hooks into the rug.

How to hang a hand hooked rug.

Don t use raw wood or un coated metals like nails to hang your rug over time this will also damage your rug. When the rug hangs the hook should not be folded over itself. It can always get dusty on the wall. This method only works on small pieces such as the wrong sized stair riser i hooked recently.

Fold half of the rug over the pipe so that the rug is draping down on both sides. Tie the loose ends of the twine together outside of the pipe. We recommend that you still clean your hanging rug every few months using a vacuum attachment. Once you re prepared.

Stay away from sticky adhesives. Hanging a rug using a curtain rod. Then scout out some nice scraps of wool fabric you ll need half a pound for each square foot of your rug. I whipped it with my usual finishing technique instead of folding the edges back and whipping.

To get started buy a hand hook it ll cost around 1 25 from a crafts supply store. Hand stitch across the top and bottom of the binding leaving both ends open so you can slide a small dowel or curtain rod through the pocket. The second method of hanging an area rug on the wall involves the use of a curtain rod. 3m strips stuck to back of sticky velcro since i had already sewn on the velcro strips a difficult task that i was not going to undo i added the hook side that has a sticky back.

Sew an extra length of rug binding along the top directly over the rug binding sewn on to cover the edge of your backing. A heavy cotton casing may be sewn onto the back of the rug again this should be hand sewn if hanging a handmade or antique rug to form a tube through which the curtain rod may be inserted. When holding up the twine it should form a triangle with the pipe and rug at the bottom. The hook should be towards the top of the rug while the sewn edge should be towards the interior of the rug.

A nail hanging rug would pull itself apart.