How To Build a Rug Making Frame - Step by Step guide for Height Adjustable Tufting Setup
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- In this video I show you how to assemble your own rug-making frame. This is a fairly comprehensive guide on how I've been making these - Since it's a piece of rug tufting / punch needle equipment that isn't available to purchase anywhere, I've been getting a lot of questions about it.
If you have any other questions I haven't answered here, or ideas on what I should make for my first giant rug on this frame, please comment them below! I'll do my best to answer everything.
Wood dimensions:
For the leg sections- two 3' tall for legs, two 2' long for feet, four 1' sections for leg support braces, cut on 45 degree angles, keep the triangle offcuts for support braces between the legs and the frame. The frame part can be any size you want. 4'x4' is easy to do because it's two standard 2x4's, but it depends on how big a rug you wanna make.
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Find the part you're looking for:
0:00 - Intro
0:15 - Supplies you Need
0:57 - Pick your Size
1:41 - Assemble Frame
2:34 - Measure & Cut Leg Supports
3:10 - Plan Leg Supports
4:12 - Keep your Scraps!
4:37 - Assemble Leg Supports
6:17 - Putting it all Together
6:31 - Height Adjustment Explanation
7:20 - Attach the Legs & Adjustment Tips
8:05 - Stop the Wiggle!
8:54 - Adding Tack Strips
9:30 - Tack Strip Tips
10:28 - Yarn Holder
11:25 - Finished Frame
11:52 - Any Questions? - Jak na to + styl
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How many ft long do the 2x4 need to be exactly ? Or it doesn’t matter ?
@@nisagonzalez9123 Which part of the frame do you mean? The entire thing is made of 2x4's...
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there is literally no better content than this. i want my entire wardrobe to be no fun if it means financially supporting videos like this. (it's only like 25% no fun at this point)
Thanks dude!! You know where to find that gear ;) I'm working on designing the Spring apparel drop now that I'm finished building this thing.
i love how he takes the extra time to build the legs separately but refuses to drill pilot holes LOL
I enjoy making the rugs! Pilot holes... not so much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just food for thought, but he built the legs separately so that they could be adjusted.
Do you have to use monks cloth or u could use brown cotton cloth
@@zaydroberts2643 I've been using Burlap, which is much much cheaper than monks cloth, with no real issues.
probably the best frame video i've seen, and i've seen 'em all from the beginning of time to ones made in the future.
Thanks, I really appreciate it!!
@@NoFunStudio i've watched a lot of 'em, and my conclusion based on the comments is that our educational system *really* needs to reinstate shop class.
@@manlymcstud8588 As someone who never got to take shop class... I agree.
Well done video - gives all the information needed with style and humor. Thanks for taking the time to teach!
Thanks Keith! I'm glad it's workin' for ya- more videos to come shortly!
i put the L shaped shelf brackets on my frame and it was super easy and extremely strong! helps for not cutting those angled pieces
Bro I based mine out of this one, thank you so much for the detailed explanation and even putting the dimensions in the description truly appreciate it!! I did my frame 4x4 but man does it look awesome!!
Hell yeah, I'm happy it helped!! 🙌
Thank you! I bumped into this gladly and enjoyed your fun personality. REAL ness. ;-) Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Bless you all!
Thanks Karie!! I'm glad you liked the video- more on the way soon, just gotta find some time to edit :)
Thanks so much! This was so helpful. Very thorough tutorial
Glad it was helpful! 🤘
I died at “no problem…” next scene, “this is where my problems began”
Exactly the help I was looking for thanks
Glad to hear it!!
The best tutorial video.. hands down.
Thank you!! 🙌
Awesome construction and your detailed explanation makes it so easy to follow. Also I subscribed ;)
Thanks Martha!!
I'm about to build this one for my mom, thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Lotta love from Chile 🇨🇱.
Awesome! I hope your mom gets a lot of use out of it!
10:40, opening the eyehooks. This just saved me like an hour of time. I was dreading having to try to cut an opening with maybe a hacksaw or the metal cutting wheel on my dremel, and then all the filing and cleanup work to make it all smooth. After watching this, I gave them a few whacks with a hammer and a cold chisel and boom, open hooks in seconds, no cleanup necessary! Thank you!
Glad to hear it! Sometimes brute force is the answer lol
I love that you have one of them Rae Dunn mugs....it's like the antithesis of your brand
😅my girlfriend's mom got them for me for xmas one year, they're xl size, and the contrast is excellent hahah
Perfect easy build
Glad you like it
delightful and informative, thanks!
No, no, thank YOU 🙏
This is the video ive been looking for.
Hell yeah! If you have any questions let me know- I'm likely to shoot a part 2 of this rug frame video in the coming months
really understood what tools i would need when he tossed them on the ground. i felt that
I swear, you are my carpentry spirit animal. Pilot holes? We don't need no stinkin pilot holes! This is awesome. In one lucky click, I found exactly what I needed to build my first rug frame. Thank you for putting this together for idiots like me!
From one idiot to another, I'm happy this helped!! 😅
Nice job
this was my step by step building this
heck ya!! love to hear it, hope yours turned out sweet
this video is going to get millions of views, i promise
I hope you're right 😅
SO entertaining.
Great video! you should get an automatic center punch. The amount of time you save not having to tap the awl really adds up. best $12 I've ever spent
also very well played finding all that free material
I do have one of these actually for metal, don't know why it's never occurred to use it on wood. In this case however- Hammering the awl did make a deeper "pilot hole" than I think the center punch would have ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
great video on making a rug tufting frame. Just a thought instead of using screws for the legs; what about drilling holes in the legs and frame and using bolts with wing nuts, so when you need to raise or lower the frame just loosen the wingnuts and take the bolt out and move them to where the need to be and not have to worry about screwing and unscrewing the screws all the time.
This would absolutely be a good solution! I built this frame during the first major lockdown & couldn't actually go to a store to buy bolts or anything, so I was using what was on hand. I do always have the screwdriver around, so unscrewing works for me- But bolt/wingnuts would work if you've got em.
this ^^^
great video! how many 2x4’s did you use?
posted on my birthday this is a sign I need to get in this business lol
Do it!! Happy Birthday!
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LOVE IIIIIIIIIT and need that measuring tape asap
Thanks! we've still got a pile of em left on our shop 📏
Gracias por ser tan buen maestro y por servir hermoso
Encantado de ayudar!
HELL YEAH!
You are a true blessing to newbies. I am just zbout to get started tufting, and would like to make a 3ft.x3ft collapsible frame because I work as a travel medical professional. Can you show how to make a small frame foldable or able to be disassembled and reassembled for travel ease? Thanks either way.
I'm in the process of moving into a smaller space, so I think a smaller frame would probably be a good idea- I'll add it to the list! 🙏
Thanks this is bomb
Happy to help!
hey nice work.! i want to ask where do you buy the product? can you suggest me some reliable one to buy :) thanks
Followed your steps & built my first tufting frame, currently working on my first design! Thanks sokuch for your help!! Where did you get the blue back drop & what's it called exactly? Would be a huge help to make the mess easier to clean
heck yeah! I love to hear it, good work! The blue backdrop is a paper backdrop for photography, called seamless paper - I got it at B&H photo, but you can order it from any photo or video shop/ or probably amazon. I just have it rolled out here to make the frame itself stand out in the video, so it's visually easier to see / blocks out all the clutter in the background of my studio. I don't have it rolled down while I'm actually working on a rug, seamless paper is way too expensive to use just as a dropcloth to catch yarn and glue on the floor. Butcher paper is probably a better bet for that! When I'm tufting I just sweep the floor as I go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I love how you throw things... lol sh!t is crazy
I adore you lol
Where do you buy fabric big enough for your frame?
would you be able to make a tutorial on how you set up the fabric on your frame?
I'll definitely try to show that in more detail when I'm editing my next couple rug videos. 👍
хорошо получилось👍 very nice 👍
thank you! 🙌
Cool video!! What were your dimensions you cut for each part of the frame?
They're all listed in another comment on this video, but I'll throw 'em in the video description
Wow lucky find for the wood. I wouldn’t be throwing that stuff away.
My neighbours are wood shops, so, I got lucky in that way - I'm happy to re-use their scraps.
@@NoFunStudio damn that’s awesome, I wish😭
Very helpful. Where are you getting your yarn from in Toronto/ are you buying it on spools? Great stuff as always
I try! Been stocking up on unspooled acrylic yarn from the big box craft stores whenever they're having a sale. If I'm buying wool or spooled yarn so far I've been going to Romni.
Can you please give me the measurements on the small pieces you used to help stabilized and keep frame from wiggling ? Thanks in advance, awesome video 🎯👌🏻
Also how long are the screws you used in this video? Thanks again! 😎
7.5" on the long side, but that's just because it was made from a scrap that was that side. The size of these pieces doesn't need to be exact, just so long as they're there & the frame is more stable.
@@timothy92x you want 2.5" minimum, but longer if possible for a stronger connection on some parts of the frame and legs. Long enough to join the two pieces, but not so long it pokes out the other side.
I filmed this during lockdown here & couldn't go to the hardware store, so I just built it using what I had on hand, which ended up being a jumble of different things.
Thanks again! I was able to get all my pieces I needed to start building my 4’ x 4’ frame. Very much appreciated 🙏🏻😎
@@timothy92x Pumped to hear it!!
Hi, I wonder know what's the difference I use between wood-bar with nails and rug hooking gripper strips?
Thank you.
I have only used the rug gripping strips - I wouldn't want to have to nail in hundreds of nails into the edge of a frame 1 by 1. The extra nail length might keep the tufting cloth on better, but would also make it harder to adjust while you're working.
On future frames I might add 2 rows of the tack strips rather than just one like is shown in the video. I think that would still work better than doing all the nails individually.
Can you also build an adjustable frame? So that you can also use smaller towels. That would be really useful. Do you have an idea or tip for me?
You can screw in an additional 2x4 or 2x2 with tacks into the inside of the frame to make a smaller area - I do this sometimes when I have offcuts of tufting cloth that are smaller than the frame's full size.
Highly recommend acoustic treatment in your space or at least some sort of mic shield isolator for use in all recording applications to tame the excessive audio reflections. Treatment in your space will make you life and audio quality better but the mic shield would be a minimal effort way to make your videos sound instantly better.
We've moved out of this space, so that's taken care a lot of the audio issues honestly! I agree the audio is a bit of a nightmare in this video... I've been striving to make everything better each video so I really appreciate the tips, gonna implement next time we're shooting.
@@NoFunStudio I "listened" using the closed captions ---so it "sounded" great! ;-)
I have a question about frames in general and hope you can help.
I am aboout to build my first frame and I am thinking go big so I dont need to worry about upgrading in the future my question is more about the rug making process itself.
Lets say I make a frame that is 2mx2m giving me 4sqm of work space, if I only use lets say a quater of this space on a rug, can I think cut that rug out and still use the backing material left on the fframe or once cut is the backing more or less unusable? This might be a really stupid question and I am assuming you will want to complete everything on the backing material before making a cut to maintain the tightness of the backing material but I cant seem to see a question or answer about this in my limited searching. Thanks in advance.
You're right - you don't want to cut anything off the frame before you're done tufting. You won't be able to tuft at all if the cloth you have stretched on your frame has a big hole - you need to surface tension in the fabric for the tufting to work. If you're going to fit more than one design onto your frame, do all your tufting first, then glue it all at the same time.
@@NoFunStudio thank you!
Where's that alleyway? I wanna pick up a few things.
There's an alleyway like this in every city, if you know where to look 🤘
Where do you put the yarn as it’s being fed through the hooks? Do I have to unroll all of my yarn to get it to unroll freely? I can’t seem to find many answers online
Some balls of yarn you can pull the string out from the middle of the ball and it will feed freely for the most part. You can also get a yarn winder tool that unwinds it from a ball that doesn't feed freely and rolls it into a ball that will. Otherwise, yes, you're stuck kinda unrolling it into a pile on the floor underneath the hooks.
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What size screw should I use ?
Hi, How can i make similar background utility ?
Love it, hope you don't have downstairs neighbors
Its thick concrete floor in an old factory building. I'm sure the people downstairs are thankful for it lol, but it's all studios here so things with noise are a little more forgivable.
Where do you purchase fabric large enough for this frame. I just made one that is 72” by 72” and am struggling to find fabric large enough for it
on aliexpress theres a bunch of sellers who have it by the meter
@@NoFunStudio is there a certain seller from AliExpress you can link? I'm only finding tapestries can't seem to find the meters of cloth
@@coleprice7858 go there and ask for a guy named Hung Wong.
What size is this?
what size wood i need for legs
Can you show how it is adjustable in height? Would you have to take all the screws out of the leg and re-drill?
You dont have to take them all the way out, but yes- you just unscrew the legs, change the height, and tighten them back in. Its like 5 screws per leg, if you have a power driver it takes about a minute. I have another frame video coming out, I'll definitely include it.
Can you put pins in the legs to quickly change heights?
Yeah, in theory I guess you could drill out a bunch of holes at different heights and then make a pin/dowel system for better quick change. I built this peak-lockdown when a lot of hardware stores here were not open, so I sort of had to use what I had on hand.
I always have a screwdriver on hand so unscrewing it has never been a problem- but I will probably experiment with a better height adjustment system in the future, pins are a good idea, but might shake loose if implemented incorrectly.
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I'm in the midst of sorting thru a whole bunch of footage to edit, more videos soon!
Where can I find the tufting cloth to fit this exact frame I built the same frame but I can’t find the cloth
I've been getting mine on alibaba/aliexpress - there's a bunch of different sellers.
what kind of projector do you use?
super cheap 1080p projector off the jungle website, it's "Dr.J brand", though I'm not sure what kind of doctor they are. Faster than taping together computer printouts & less paper wasted.
Is it possible to get the exact wood measurements so I can get it from my local home improvement store that cut the wood?
For the leg sections: two 3' tall for legs, two 2' long for feet, four 1' sections for leg support braces, cut on 45 degree angles, keep the triangle offcuts for support braces between the legs and the frame. The frame part can be any size you want. 4'x4' is easy to do because it's two standard 2x4's, but it depends on how big a rug you wanna make.
@@NoFunStudio thanks a lot !
@@NoFunStudio would the 4x4 size change the size of the leg measurements?
@@taliayahherron1274 Nope, all the legs on all my frames are the same size.
@@NoFunStudio thank you
It's great if you have a shop and power tools and a massive room to make rugs in...
Fair! You're not the only one looking for an easier, more compact version- I'm planning on making a 'Part 2' of this build that incorporates everybody's questions & concerns from the comments here.
Tip: if you run your screw in reverse with some pressure for a bit before screwing, it helps prevent the wood from splitting.
Ps it'll produce some smoke a little bit but that's normal. At least in my experience but it does seem to work.
about nail what king of I should use it ?
You should use screws, not nails. Screws will hold the frame together more securely than nails, which will shake loose over time.
Now the real question is where do you find tufting cloth that large to fit that!?
Aliexpress
I like how he turned the whole frame around to move it and put it against the wall, when he could have just left it the direction it was and walked it the wall.. I do that kind of crap all the time, only to realize later, LOL
I'm only realizing this now 😅
I bet your downstairs neighbors love you
My studio is in a big old factory building, the floors are concrete under the flooring. My other neighbour is a woodworking shop, thankfully.
@@NoFunStudio That's good 🤣🤣
How do u get this type of frame to Sri still while tufting
I'm able to screw mine directly into the floor. Before that I would keep one of my feet stood down on the foot section of the frame- that should stop it from going anywhere as you tuft. Or weights/longer feet would help stabilize if it's moving around on you as you work.
Ugh the thing I miss most about Toronto is Pizza Nova
It's still just as good as you remember 👍
bruh youtube glitched and it replaced your video with a burger king ad and i thought you rick rolled me i was like no way so i look in the comments and me already being confused see people saying thanks and all that so i became more suspicious and thought everyone was in on this little burger king ad joke or something. i refreshed the page and here you are.......
From a 71yo wood butcher: There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it again.
Damn, if that ain't the truth... 😅
How do I cut the slant. Correctly ?
Every 'slanted' cut required on this is at a 45 degree angle, nothing too fancy
What size tufting cloth do you use ?
Depends on what rug I'm trying to make- I just buy it huge and cut it down to whatever size I'm doing.
What kind of fabric do you use?
primary tufting cloth
What do you call the one you painted red?
they're carpet tack strips, designed for installing carpet. They're available at most hardware or flooring stores.
Where can I get/find the fabric to cover that whole frame?!
on alibaba!
@@NoFunStudio is that the same thing as aliexpress?
@@DukeUniversity5 more or less, yes
Bro what did the floor do to you
You don't even wanna know.. We got into a fight when I was installing it, and I clearly never let it go 😅
I still got a knife in my abdomen even though I wore gloves. Please advise.
Do not remove the knife. Carefully wrap your wound (around the knife). Seek help from a medical professional immediately. Good luck, and don't forget to hit subscribe!
Unscrewing the frame off from the legs to adjust the height seems like a lot of trouble than just putting like two boxes or something underneath the legs.
Whatever works for you, if you can find two boxes that are stable enough, but, I imagine it would shift around a lot during tufting which isnt ideal.
I have a power driver in the studio at all times, doing a couple screws only takes a few seconds.
Where did you get these strips?
You can find them inexpensively at most hardware stores, or amazon probably has em
I have a metal frame what can I do to get a nail frame to add to the metal don’t like the clips that came with this kid made a mistake and bought the middle one
I'm not completely sure I understand what you're asking - but you could likely drill out holes in the tack strips and metal frame, then attach the strips to the metal frame with rivets- rather than hammering them into a wooden frame.
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Y todo lo tiene tirar contra el piso? Que fastidio azotando todo parece un loco😵😵
Lumber is sold in longer than 8ft lengths
All of my local lumber yards carry 8', but you're right, the availability of that shorter size does vary regionally.
Where would I find 6x8 monks cloth🙄
Primary tufting cloth is sold by the meter, most suppliers I've seen offer larger sizes.
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The orientation of the wood of the frame is wrong. The middle part of the span will sag. The wider face of the wood should be facing you. I would like to see you stretch fabric on this frame. I hope I'm wrong with my assumptions. Nice build though.
You're right, there is a bit of flex in the longer sides when the fabric is stretched on, but since you can't really tuft right up to the edges of your frame either way, it doesn't really matter.
I don't run into that issue at all on the smaller frames using this build method, and I'm assuming most people watching this won't end up making a monster sized frame like this.
@@NoFunStudio am I right to think that If the wider part faces you then there’s less surface area to tuft but it would have better stability? So the frame would also need to be mitre joined in each corner like a standard picture frame? Thanks :)
its no fun studio but the guy is funny itself
Nice work but try to have more fun.
I'll see what I can do 😅
Damn right u forgot an important step u forgot the damn ranch
Wituft
Idk I hate when people throws away everything instead of just put the things like normal people hahaha
This video gave me anxiety so annoying
yikes, sorry!
To many videos showing this. Your late
Nothing wrong with having more resources to choose from.
@@lordtette yep, and this how-to beats 'em all mostly by a country mile.
But I don’t got what if you have an order for a rug that’s not that big
If I have a piece of tufting cloth thats too small for the frame, I screw in an extra tacked 2x4 crossbar or two to squeeze down the frame size.