How To Make A Clippy Mat
Made from old sacks and recycled fabric including old clothes and sheets proggy mats were an economical option to keep feet warm in an era before fitted carpets.
How to make a clippy mat. Make your own proggy mat during our proggy mat workshop and take it home along with your own mat making kit. The tradition of making rag mats isn t unique to the north east but the terms hooky and proggy are regional. The traditional proggy mat once a common feature of north east homes is making a comeback. They are also known as clippy mats proddy cleekie clootie stobby poked tab broddy bodged and peg rugs.
You can even cut it into a shape such as a crescent moon or heart. Visitors to middlesbrough institute of modern art mima can now buy traditional clippy mats. Like many crafts mat making was originally born out of necessity but today is very much about. Hooky mats are slightly different but all the names refer to how the mats are made or the tool used to make them.
So when i saw the ouseburn farm poster about learning proggy mat making also known as hooky clippy clootie mats or rugs my attention was caught. A short video which explains how to create textile projects using the proggy technique. Cut the mat down to the desired size. You can make your rug a square or a rectangle.
This will show you what size to cut your fabric and how to add it to. This is a lady making a proggy mat note they are made stretched on a frame and worked with the wrong side facing up. Elsewhere they are known as clippy mats proddy mats and peg rugs for example. Basically proggy proddy peggy tab clippie and clootie mats are all regional names for the same thing.
The clippy proggy hooky rough rag mat known by many names the clippy mat grew out of the needs of poor workers to furnish their homes in much less throw away times. The fact that it was ali rhind teaching the taster course made me decide to find out if i could get on this course. Traditionally made from old sacks and strips of material pushed or pulled through with a hook or a prodder they give old strips of material the chance to become works of art.