How To Make A Proggy Mat Frame

This is a lady making a proggy mat note they are made stretched on a frame and worked with the wrong side facing up.

How to make a proggy mat frame.

The pleasure of making and the growing interest in recycling. 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. Hooky and proggy mats a beginner s guide. Specifications for the larger traditional proddy proggy frame generally braced between two tables or set onto two saw horses.

The tradition of making rag mats isn t unique to the north east but the terms hooky and proggy are regional. This will show you what size to cut your fabric and how to add it to. Elsewhere they are known as clippy mats proddy mats and peg rugs for example. A short video which explains how to create textile projects using the proggy technique.

The traditional proddy or proggy frame consists of four pieces of timbre with 4 pegs. Basically proggy proddy peggy tab clippie and clootie mats are all regional names for the same thing. Hookinpunch adjustable frame demonstration from notforgotten farm. It is a relatively simply frame to make and use and can be used for both prodding and hooking.

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