How To Decorate An Old Rug Beater

I found this beauty on etsy but you could easily recreate the concept if you wanted.

How to decorate an old rug beater.

Aug 7 2013 explore kelli williams s board antique rug beaters followed by 645 people on pinterest. On the backside of the crease place the dampened towel over the crease. This is an old fashioned rag beater or carpet beater. Before vacuums and carpet sweepers became popular carpet beaters were the most common way to clean household carpets and rugs.

Smaller pieces of carpet or old throw rugs can also be turned into gorgeous throw pillows. Anchor the room with a rug. And on line auction sites will provide you with some idea of what others are willing to pay for that one unique specimen that is missing from their collection. If you don t have an old throw rug or any carpet to use you could just as easily pick this one up on etsy for around 130.

See more ideas about antique rugs rugs antiques. How you beat rugs in the old days. Press the iron downward slide back the iron back and forth over the crease until the crease is relaxed properly. Once that s done arrange your furniture on around that rug mehaffey suggests.

Rug beater c 1940 rug beaters also called carpet beaters carpet whips clothes beaters. The rug can be your anchor so take the guesswork out of furniture arrangement by placing your rug first. Lp helps me by beating the rugs a few times a month to get out the dirt that shaking. You used an old fashioned rug beater.

Oct 17 2016 explore weirick s primitives and antiq s board old rug beaters followed by 1063 people on pinterest. So many reproductions are made but this one has a look of an older one as they wooden handle. Vacuums can pull and loosen rug fibers so using a beater is a great way to get dust debris and other matter out of your rugs without damaging them. I cannot say if it is authentic or a reproduction.

Before the advent of vacuum cleaning rug beating was the preferred method for getting dust and debris out of rugs. According to mehaffey that s typically in the center of the room or as equidistant on all sides as possible. By hanging a carpet over an outdoor railing or clothesline and repeatedly striking it with a beater a cleaner could drive the dust from the carpet.