Editing Rug making (section)

==Rag rugs==
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[[File:RagRug.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Photo of a rag rug.|Rag rug constructed from T-shirts and bed linen]]
Rag rugs were commonly made in households up to the middle of the 20th century by using odd scraps of fabric on a background of old sacking. Rag rugs became widespread during the [[Industrial Revolution]] to the nineteenth century, but by the 1920s the craft was dying out except in areas of poverty or where tradition had a stronger hold. The necessity for thrift during [[World War II]] brought a brief revival, but it did not last long.<ref name="hemeon">{{cite web |title=Hemeon, Maidie (rug maker) |url=https://merl.reading.ac.uk/collections/hemeon-maidie-rug-maker/ |publisher=The Museum of English Rural Life |access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>

===Prodded===
Proddy rugs are made, as the name implies, by prodding or poking strips of fabric through hessian or linen from the back side. Rag rugs made this way have many names, such as clippies, stobbies, clippers and peggies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barile|first=Mary Collins|title=Hooked Rugs of the Midwest: A Handcrafted History|date=28 May 2013|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated|isbn=978-1-61423-948-2}}</ref> In [[Northumberland]] they are called proggy mats, and in [[Scotland]] they are called [[Wikt:clootie|clootie]] mats. They were often made for more utilitarian use such as by the back door, their pile hiding dirt well.

The [[Museum of English Rural Life]] has a collection of rug-making tools and thrift rugs.<ref name = "hemeon"/>