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Robert, I remember them well. I helped my mother make a few. Had to cut old stockings into strips, and we would then peg these into sacking making a pattern utilising the different shades. The finished rugs looked quite ‘classy’, well we thought so. Took a long time and much patience to make. Also aching fingers. We would also get old (washed) clothes out of the rag bag and make a rug out of these. It was really hard on the fingers cutting these items into strips because some of the material was thick.

Anything left in the rag bag was sold to the rag and bone man for a few coppers.. Someone (I think it was an aunt) gave me an old fur coat and a gypsy woman gave me a gravy jug for it. How’s that for remembering.