This little vintage braiding rug stand with the old braided rug still threaded through it, and all the handmade braided rugs that came before it, have me reflecting on my mother and grandmother on this sentimental Mother’s Day.
This little vintage braiding rug stand with the old braided rug still threaded through it, and all the handmade braided rugs that came before it, have me reflecting on my mother and grandmother on this sentimental Mother’s Day.
Mother’s Day Reflections With the sentiments of Mother’s Day upon me, I started to rummage through some old family photos while I was here in Maine getting our home Summer-Ready.
When I came across this next photo from 1969. It is of me at 4 years old braiding my first braided rug on my mother’s braiding rug stand in the Den at our home on the Nubble in Maine.
And you know what? That black captain’s chair, well it was still up in our attic. That green laundry basket, filled here with my mother’s cloth rug braids, resides in the linen closet. That vintage blue chest of drawers, I recently refinished and is now in the guest bedroom at our Home in Vermont. See more in the post, Vintage Dresser Refashioned | Something Old Something New. And I still have the leftover cloth rug braids too, all 54 years later.
So I decided to pull them all together for today’s blog post, dedicated to all the mothers who braided and taught their daughters how to braid their own rugs.
Did you ever realize that a braiding rug stand was so simple? All the braiding rug stand is, is a wooden contraption built to hold the cloth braids with a braiding clamp, while you sit in a chair and braid. You could make one of your own very easily. This is what this old braiding rug stand’s clamp looks like close-up.
Braided Rugs Today I have 4 of my mother’s handmade braided rugs and 1 from my grandmother, along with this vintage braiding rug stand that embraces the formless braided rug.
All of which we use on our wood floors every day here at our home in Maine. And these handmade braided rugs are some of my prize possessions today, next to Ella:)