Carpet Binding To Create Rugs
This product is a very good diy solution to make rugs out of carpet remnants.
Carpet binding to create rugs. If you want to make an area rug from a carpet remnant or from a swath of broadloom carpet off a roll there are several options for finishing the edges to prevent fraying. And the tan color matched the best with my carpet. You can a have it bound at a rug shop or b bind it yourself. The most common choices for carpet finishing are binding serging and fringing.
The company that sells this was very happy to send me some samples. The only problem was that it was a carpet remnant so the edges were unfinished. But you must use a hot glue gun to adhere the binding to your carpet. Bind it yourself with a diy carpet binding tape.
And i wanted to make a small rug out if it. Determined to make this happen i put it on hold and began to research. Rather it requires that you have a professional do the work with. And the length came a one continuous piece.
You basically flip the carpet over and hot glue a binding onto the back. Seal the two binding edges with a spot of hot glue. Use the long nozzle tip on the hot glue gun to add a 1 8 inch bead of glue between the piping on the binder and the carpet s edge. Turns out that you have two options for an unfinished carpet remnant.
Generally speaking however these aren t techniques you can do yourself. The reviews on this carpet binding tape are all good.