How To Make A Faux Fur Rug

Making your own fur rugs is more economical then buying them and you waste less of the prey you harvest.

How to make a faux fur rug.

Pick it up with a dustpan. I personally have 3 in my home. Pinching the fur underneath with you free hand flip the pieces over and start hand stitching along the joined edges on the back. Lay the fabric underlay on top of the upside down faux fur and use it as an outline to cut the faux fur to shape and size again using the fiskars powercut shears.

So i decided to use diluted hair conditioner in a spray bottle to to bring it back to life this is the before and after to show you the. Anytime my pooch peed on the faux fur rug the first thing i d do is pour baking soda on the spot and walk away. This tutorial shows you how to make a cheap and washable faux fur rug for a reasonable price. Not only does this greatly reduce and almost completely eliminate the excess fur flying around but it gives a much more natural edge.

Glue the underlay to the bottom of the rug. Make sure that the fur is going in the same direction and make sure to push the fur away from the edges to get a nice clean meeting of the edge line. The baking soda will clump up. They aren t cheap and they re high maintenance.

Drying the fur step 1 place the fresh animal fur in a tub and cover it with cold water to remove any remaining blood and to cool the hide. If it s a big dog or large area empty the entire box on the spot and let it completely dry. Lift out the animal fur and let the used water drain off. And with all four sides trimmed i flipped it back over and had a faux fur rug.

This is the perfect tool for this project as it can cut super thick materials with ease. A big home fashion trend just now is faux fur rugs. They look lovely to begin with but unless they are just sitting out and never getting walked on they can look quite grubby and lifeless the more you walk and sit on them.