How To Make A Proggy Mat Frame

Hookinpunch adjustable frame demonstration from notforgotten farm.

How to make a proggy mat frame.

Hooky and proggy mats a beginner s guide. Check out the accompanying instructional films at. How to make a christmas wreath using a rag rug tool rag rugger. Textile artist ali rhind gives a step by step guide to creating hooky and proggy rag rugs.

Elsewhere they are known as clippy mats proddy mats and peg rugs for example. Specifications for the larger traditional proddy proggy frame generally braced between two tables or set onto two saw horses. The pleasure of making and the growing interest in recycling. A short video which explains how to create textile projects using the proggy technique.

This is a lady making a proggy mat note they are made stretched on a frame and worked with the wrong side facing up. This will show you what size to cut your fabric and how to add it to. Here are a set of instructions for making rag rugs put together by textile artist ali rhind to take you through the process of making hooky and proggy mats as well as making the frames and tools. The tradition of making rag mats isn t unique to the north east but the terms hooky and proggy are regional.

Hooky mats are slightly different but all the names refer to how the mats are made or the tool used to make them.