In this post, Becky Ashenden takes us on a first-person photo journey through the process of re-weaving an old rag rug from her father’s childhood home in Maine.


This story has been on deck for a whole year – my how time flies!




This is a close-up look of an especially bad section of this warp.

That shows that even as the rug was wearing out, it was still – for the most part – serving its purpose as a decorative floor cover, continually being walked on. This kind of wear certainly makes it difficult to vacuum!



The finished rug was hand delivered as a present to my father last winter. It has now come full circle to the same house where it may reside another 100 years!

Re-weaving an old rug is a wonderful adventure I would recommend to any of you out there who weave. If you take this on, we would love it if you would share your re-weaving adventure with us.