Add Edging To Carpet

White glue is an old edging trick and at one time those with more time than money reinforced edges with cloth carpet tape a sturdy needle and heavyweight thread.

Add edging to carpet.

The company that sells this was very happy to send me some samples. Pull the edging firmly up the side of the rug and onto the bead of glue on top pressing firmly. Run a line of hot glue still using the nozzle around the carpet between the carpet edge and the inner edge of the binding. Generally speaking however these aren t techniques you can do yourself.

Turn the carpet right side up and apply a bead of carpet glue to the edges and approximately 1 2 inch 1 3 cm onto the top of the rug. Rather it requires that you have a professional do the work with. To prevent fraying however your carpet remnant needs an edging. If you want to make an area rug from a carpet remnant or from a swath of broadloom carpet off a roll there are several options for finishing the edges to prevent fraying.

Press the two together for a better seal while the glue is still melted. But you must use a hot glue gun to adhere the binding to your carpet. The most common choices for carpet finishing are binding serging and fringing. Video instructions for regular style instabind carpet binding.

And the tan color matched the best with my carpet. I had a small piece of carpet left over from our new carpet installation. And i wanted to make a small rug out if it.