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Learn to Make a Shirred Wool Rug – Saturday, October 26, 2024
Oct 26, 2024 10:00AM—2:00PM
Marine Mills Folk School, 550 Pine St., Marine on St Croix, MN 55047
What is a Shirred Rug you ask? Shirred rugs appear around 1870, but few examples survive since most relied on sewing thread to hold the rugs together. By the 1890s, elaborate examples of shirred rugs were made and specialized tools began to be marketed, but most rugs continued to be made with needle and thread…
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