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Several types of rugs can be made from yarn.
Yarn rugs are knitted, crocheted or knotted. The knotted rug is made on a canvas backing, while knitted and crochet rugs are used as they come off the needle or hook. Both can result in attractive rugs with ample opportunity for creativity. Many of these rugs produce a looped surface. This is the case with knitted and crochet rugs.

Knotted Rugs
It is possible to make a handcrafted rug with a pile surface. This ranges from the coarse surface of a latch-hooked rug to the deep glow of an oriental-style carpet with as many as 100 stitches per square cm. When using the latch-hook short lengths of wool are pulled through the holes in a canvas, The wool is quite thick. A finely knotted rug can be made using a needle and fine canvas. The loops that are formed with this method are later cut or sheared to reveal the deep glow of the exposed ends, thus creating a pile-type rug.

Knitted Rugs

Crochet Rugs

Woven Rugs

By listing some of the characteristics of the various textures and materials hope to have given you an insight into the possiblities.

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