StretchLearn Course
From a drum-tight frame to a carved, bound, fully finished tufted rug in one focused course.
Course Overview
This course teaches the full gun-tufting workflow used by working rug makers: building and tensioning a frame, choosing primary cloth and yarn, transferring a design, and operating both cut-pile and loop-pile tufting guns. You then learn the finishing steps that separate a craft-fair rug from a durable one: gl, secondary backing, carving, and binding the edge. By the end you can take a design from sketch to a trimmed, glued, finished rug.
Learning Outcomes
Build and tension a tufting frame and mount primary tufting cloth to the correct drum-tight tension
Select yarn by fiber and weight and calculate how much you need for a given rug area
Transfer a design onto the back of the cloth and tuft inside the lines with a cut-pile or loop-pile gun
Operate, thread, and clear jams on an AK-I style cut-pile and AK-II style loop-pile tufting gun
Apply tufting glue and a secondary backing so the pile is locked and the rug lies flat
Trim, shear, carve, and bind the edge to finish a rug to a durable, sellable standard
Curriculum Preview
Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.
Tufting is only as good as the surface you tuft into. Before any yarn is loaded you build a rigid frame, mount the cloth drum-tight, and arrange a workspace that keeps the gun, yarn, and dust under control.
Before the gun fires you choose the yarn that will become the rug's surface, plan its colors, and get your design onto the cloth accurately and in the right orientation.
This is the core craft: threading and controlling the gun, tufting clean rows and tight outlines, holding consistent pile, and recovering when the gun jams or skips.
Finishing is where a loose field of pile becomes a permanent, flat, sellable rug. You lock the pile with glue, bond a secondary backing, shear and carve the surface, and bind the edge.
Built for Application
This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.