Anna and Ramon it's a peg rug I'm making for my summer house it's small strips of fabric threaded through hessian. They were made when people couldn't afford a rug so they would get a sack cut it open then cut up any rags and bits of fabric they had to make the rug, a new one would possibly have been used as a bed cover then as a rug in different rooms with the kitchen being the last one before it was thrown out.
The one I'm making is just under 1m square multiplying it up I think there are about 6000 strips of fabric, I cut up a lot of old clothes !!! I'll post a photo of the back
I hope we will see a picture of it in your summer house Peter? A labour of love I would think. It does look very nice and something we don't see much of these days. A star for all three pictures.
I love this little series Peter..............thanks for sharing.
My Dad muse to make rugs like these when I was a lad.........they were great to use on picnics and on top of groundsheets in our tents when we were camping!
LOL any picture with the title of "Squiggles" gets an A+ from me! :D I am the queen of coming up with ridiculous names for things and squiggles is a word I like to use if ever I have the chance! :D For this picture it's perfectly apt in all regards, and your photography is super! Love the clarity, colors and texture of this rug. Isn't it fun to reveal the world that macro shows us? I find it endlessly fascinating and surprising--and that's coming from someone who's totally passionate about macro and most of my pictures are this way...never-ending surprises await you, because you just can't imagine what things really look like until captured and examined with a macro lens!
Thank you for your wonderful comments Janet as you say macro and close up reveals wonderful things we don't normally notice or see, I like to try and take something a bit different occasionally it works usually it doesn't my kitchen window cill has lots of things I might take one day, dead flowers seed pods etc. Are you planning on touring for a few weeks at a time or spending a couple of years exploring your country
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Andy Rodker said:
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Jaap van 't Veen said:
ColRam said:
J'ai l'impression que ce sont des pâtes
Est ce comestible ?
aNNa schramm said:
Peter Castell said:
The one I'm making is just under 1m square multiplying it up I think there are about 6000 strips of fabric, I cut up a lot of old clothes !!! I'll post a photo of the back
ColRam replied to Peter Castell:
Donc tu es artisan à tes heures.
C'est beau !
je croyais franchement que c'était des pâtes
Bonne soirée
Rosalyn Hilborne said:
Peter Castell replied to Rosalyn Hilborne:
Keith Burton said:
My Dad muse to make rugs like these when I was a lad.........they were great to use on picnics and on top of groundsheets in our tents when we were camping!
Janet Brien said:
Thanks for the fun show, I loved it!
Peter Castell replied to Janet Brien: