Build Your Own Rag Rug Weaving Twining Loom - Downloadable Plans

Rag Rugs are simple, beautiful and incredibly cheap ...except if you have to pay hundreds of dollars for a loom!

Discover how easy it is to build your own Salish-style, Rag Rug weaving Loom.

This loom is the perfect way to get started with weaving.

This package includes 35 drawings along with 20 photographs that show you how to build your very own Salish Loom. If you want to learn how to weave or make your own low-cost rag rugs, then this is a great place to start.

This is a very easy project, so anyone with just basic woodworking knowledge will be able to complete this. The only specialist tool recommended is a drill press, but even this machine is not essential in order to build a perfectly serviceable Salish-style Loom.

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The downloadable plans package includes two different versions of the Salish Loom, together with a floor stand to make the loom even more versatile. The plans also include full drawings to make a multi-functional easel that will not only place the loom at the perfect working height, but serve all of your art and craft projects.

The loom can be built for as little as fifteen dollars and can easily be built in a day. It is small enough to slide behind a chair or sofa for storage and yet large enough to make a six foot long rug. Furthermore, this loom doesn't require a room of its own! it can be tucked behind a chair or stored under the bed.

Visit our YouTube channel at youtube.com/FibreArtsBootcamp or our learning channel at curious.com/FABinBC to find detailed instructional videos on how to get started with rag rug making using this loom.

Rags have been converted into rugs, probably for centuries. In fact, rag-rugging might even qualify as one of the earliest recycling programs. Rags are plentiful and cheap and with very little effort, they can be converted into attractive and hardwearing floor-covering.

Learn more about the Salish Loom and Rag Rug Making

The Salish are coastal people indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, extending from Washington State up to Bella Coola in British Columbia. The Salish people have a long history of fiber working and are renowned for their beautiful weaving. Weavers were highly revered for their craft., as well as the necessary dyes and paints. Just harvesting and converting the raw materials, whether from plant, tree, Mountain Goat or the specially bred woolly coastal dog into useable fiber took great skill and much time. A Salish woven blanket would become a treasured item, with tremendous spiritual and tribal significance. These blankets were woven on a very simple loom, much like the one described in these plans.

It is this extremely simple design that attracted me to the loom. I have known several would-be weavers who splashed out thousands of dollars on looms, only to have them sit dormant in their homes, sometimes occupying an entire room and yet producing nothing. Why? Complexity! Modern looms have become so complicated that without training and persistence, they become mechanical follies; destined to gather dust for years. I have no doubt whatsoever that I lack the perseverance to sit at one of these all-singing, all-dancing looms for hours on end, if I managed to fathom out how to warp the thing in the first place!

And don't forget, every penny received from these plans goes directly to support the rescued animals at The Llama Sanctuary! (llamasanctuary.com)