How to Insert Rags into a Frame Loom

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Hi, this is Debbie Huglin Vogel and I'm here with Expert Village doing a rag rug on a hand-made loom. This is the kind of thing that they're learning how to do in town now in Navajo places because they're moving in town from Grandma's. And Grandma used to show them how to do this. What we're doing is we're adding on about an inch think piece of rag, which makes the rug go very fast. But since it's a hand loom you have to actually go in here, and get the one from behind and move it in front and put your rag behind it. And you're controlling it with your fingers, so you that you don't make it too tight or too thin. Once again, here's the one from behind. You want everything to stay in the same direction. So you have to look at it and do it by hand. Okay, so we've got that one. Now we want this one. And you just keep going down the way, so you're catching them, kind of like braiding. And the one before is behind, that was on top and that's what holds them together. And if you pull it too hard, you just take it back and you tuck it down with your fingers. Here's the one that's behind. Here's the one that's behind. As you get going, it goes faster and faster. Here's the one that's behind. Here's the one that's behind. So if you were out in Navajo land, you'd be sitting with your Grandma, telling stories, making rugs. That's what they do in the winter when it's cold. There they use wool and they grow their own sheep, so they say that sheep is life in Navajo land, in Denai. This one's the one behind.

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