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rember the peg rug

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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.

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Yes, I helped making these rugs too….the scraps of cloth was graded according to thickness.
My grandma used the thickest stuff around the edge(old coats were good for this….and sometimes a square in the middle.
As to getting money from the raglan, I only remember her getting donkey stones for the stone steps and the backyard flags.

Nothing was wasted, string was not cut if it could be untied.
All brown paper and bags were saved. Jam jars were saved to put barley and dry herbs into…buttons were cut off clothes and went into a big biscuit tin.
This was something I used to play with as a child.
This was recycling before it was thought of as being a planet saving thing

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[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1269842]Yes, I helped making these rugs too….the scraps of cloth was graded according to thickness.
My grandma used the thickest stuff around the edge(old coats were good for this….and sometimes a square in the middle.
As to getting money from the raglan, I only remember her getting donkey stones for the stone steps and the backyard flags.

Nothing was wasted, string was not cut if it could be untied.
All brown paper and bags were saved. Jam jars were saved to put barley and dry herbs into…buttons were cut off clothes and went into a big biscuit tin.
This was something I used to play with as a child.
This was recycling before it was thought of as being a planet saving thing

What a cracking post, takes me back to the fifties, something that today's youngsters would scoff at but would probably say whoa/ hang on a minute, I can't even afford a packet of fags and it's all down to a none labour Government who will not allow me to smoke because why should I get off my A---e and earn a bob or two, when I can stay in bed and let the older people, yes (us), carry on paying our way, as we have done all our lives. after that rant I shall open another bottle of Hobgoblin which I have earned and paid for without needing any government handouts. Phew, I feel better already.