How to make original carpets with your own hands?

Handmade carpets for thousands of years of existencenever went out of fashion. And today, in our technocratic age, such products are equated with art objects. Carpets not only warm our homes, but also decorate, serving as original decor elements. To create carpets with your own hands is not such a difficult task, as it seems to many.

The technician of creation of carpets set.They are weaved and weave, they are sewed, embroidered and knit. Materials for carpets are woolen threads, satin ribbons, yarn, loose fabric. A beautiful drawing can be created by carving out parts of a carpet of different colors. Excellent soft mats are obtained from old T-shirts. Cut knitted strips can be weaved and interleaved with knots, and you can make knitted pompons and from them to make up your masterpiece.

Modern needlewomen have long gone beyondtemplates and use in their work, it would seem, completely inappropriate materials. But the result of creative ideas is impressive. For example, a heated mat. In addition, on a solid basis, you can glue the pebbles. Or we can weave carpets from ropes or sesal with our own hands.

Great idea - with two-sided scotch tape"Embedded" between the piece of carpet and linoleum tape infrared film system. True, without her husband can not do here - trust him to monitor the quality of the connection and the insulation of the cable. Beforehand measure the length from the place where the mat will lie to the socket. How to properly install infrared film, detailed in the instructions to it.

A rug of money with their own hands can be done ongift. A birthday surely will be happy! To make it in a couple of hours will not be difficult even for an office clerk. On a piece of polyethylene (you can buy a hothouse in a store for gardeners) with thin tape, glue different denominations of banknotes. Take the trouble to lay out them with a beautiful pattern. Cover with a second piece of polyethylene, and tape the edges with tape. The money carpet for the boss is ready!

Master-class "Carpets made of pompoms with their own hands"

Most often, craftsmen order these carpets forchildren's bedroom. They are soft, fluffy and very beautiful. And completely safe - the fall of a baby on such a carpet can be compared with falling on a large soft toy. Pompon carpets make it simple. Both the process and the result will bring you a lot of fun. You will only have a couple of hours to master the simple technique. Much more time you spend on creating the pompoms themselves. So, prepare a colored yarn, a mesh (special carpet is sold in the shops for needlework, but you can replace the usual building mesh), scissors and a template (optional).

Step-by-step instruction

1. Do pom-poms in any convenient way for you: reeling in two fingers or on a cardboard. Twist the yarn with a long thread around the center, and carefully cut along the edges.
2. Or you can use one of two templates. With them, carpets with their own hands will be much more neat and beautiful. (I - two cardboard rings, II - stick sticks from ice cream between two discs).
3. Decide on the picture. In order not to be mistaken, you can apply it with colored markers directly on the grid.
4. Tie the long ends of the thread behind the stack. The gap between pom-poms is determined independently: the larger the ball, the greater the distance between them.
5. The edges of the carpet can be tied or sewed with strips of fabric.