Braided Towel Rug

Cut off the border of the towels if necessary.

Braided towel rug.

Trust me on this i have looked. Twist the long braided. Thank you so much for watching. Join the towel strips by stitching the ends of the cut strips together to create three long strips.

Braided beach towel rug. Braided and stitched bath towel rug. In order to make the woven rug shown in the top picture look up four strand braided rag rugs i make them using a four strand braid where you loup the fourth strand into the previous row. A sewing machine or some needle and thread will be needed to make a braided rug from towels.

There are lots of diy posts about rag rugs out there but most of them just left me confused. Line up 3 strips. Why not make a braided beach towel rug that could be used in the bathroom. The only other thing that is important to know is thinking of a really awesome design.

The first step is cutting your beach towel up into strips. Here is a video to show simple easy steps on how to do bathing mat using old towels. The video photos help tremendously and the directions are the most concise i found. Cut bath towels into strips 1 to 1 1 2 inches wide.

A braided rug from towels is a great way to create your own area rugs on the cheap. Cut the bath towels into strips using a cutting mat and rotary cutter we made ours 3 inches wide. This is crucial as the thread is used to sew the braids of the area rug together. Hope you like it.

Starting in the center of the rug sew the braids to each other so the rug doesn t uncoil. It actually turned out pretty nice. Once you have a braid that s long enough braid coil the strips into an oval shape on a flat surface. Fortunately this braided rag rug tutorial by megan nielsen is excellent and most likely the best you re going to find.

I used two inch strips and ended up with four. Take a strip in each color and sew the three ends together.