Woman laying on a very fluffy rug made from recycled tshirts in rainbow colors

Fluffy Rug Course

If you follow Trashmagination on social media, then you know that my fluffy rug posts went viral in February. There were so many requests for me to make an online course, so guess what? I did it! Here I will share what went into making the course, and why I hope you’ll sign up to see at least the free videos.

You can sign up for the course at https://trashmagination.thinkific.com/courses/fluffy-rug-weaving.

You can listen to the original podcast episode where I introduced my course in March 2021 here in this YouTube video:

This is a combination of weaving and knot tying. Some artists tie knots on to a pre-made netting. There was a company in Finland called Ragmate that inspired me a lot, but it doesn’t exist anymore. My method is different because:

  1. You use actual t-shirts that you dis-assemble and cut into t-shirt yarn – and my method helps you recycle more of the t-shirt that other typical t-shirt yarn making.
  2. You weave the actual grid from t-shirt yarn as you go, rather than buying a pre-made mesh or grid.
  3. The final rug is very hefty and uses up an incredible number of t-shirts – I used 60+ XXL adult t-shirts in the rugs shown here.

You can sign up and view the first five videos for free. In those classes, you learn what kinds of materials you need to make your fluffy rug, including the loom (which can be from recycled materials) and the t-shirts.

Photos Gallery of Trashmagination’s Fluffy Rugs

Rainbow warp on Trashmagination's tapestry loom - colorful strings attached to screws
Rainbow warp on Trashmagination’s tapestry loom – colorful strings attached to screws
Rainbow warp on Trashmagination's tapestry loom
Rainbow warp on Trashmagination’s tapestry loom – this is a Story Loom designed by Weaving a Life
Trashmagination rainbow rug almost completed
Trashmagination rainbow rug almost completed
Back of the rainbow rug woven by Trashmagination
Back of the rainbow rug woven by Trashmagination
View of the rainbow rug from above on the tapestry loom
View of the rainbow rug from above on the tapestry loom
Rainbow rug woven by Trashmagination made from recycled t-shirts
Rainbow rug woven by Trashmagination made from recycled t-shirts
White rug from recycled t-shirts designed and made by Trashmagination
On the loom – white rug from recycled t-shirts designed and made by Trashmagination
Close-up of the white t-shirt curls on a rug woven by Trashmagination
Close-up of the white t-shirt curls on a rug woven by Trashmagination
Happy Carla Brown from Trashmagination with her white rug woven from recycled t-shirts
Happy Carla Brown from Trashmagination with her white rug woven from recycled t-shirts
White fluffy rug woven by Trashmagination from recycled t-shirts
White fluffy rug woven by Trashmagination from recycled t-shirts
Back of the white fluffy rug by Trashmagination
Back of the white fluffy rug by Trashmagination

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