Choosing rugs from pompons

The dwelling of a modern person is hard to imagine without stylish functional things: today, every thing must adapt to the user's requests. One of the stylish accessories of the interior are plaids - charming capes with a pleasant texture and unusual design, for example, made of pompons. However, not all products are durable and, depending on the method of manufacture, differ in service life. Choose blankets from pompons: note the subtleties of choice, taking into account the different versions and functionality.

Pompom blankets are unique textile accessories.

They are able to perform several tasks at once:

• are a stylish decoration of furniture of different types (adult or children's beds, sofas, armchairs, chairs);
• protect the surface of a sleeping bed or sofa seat from abrasion, mechanical damage, dust, dirt, moisture;
• give the furniture a neat look, successfully replacing the classic blanket or bedspread;
• able to become a light blanket, covering the user;
• cope with the role of a sweater or a volume scarf, wrapping the body in a cool room;
• being made for babies, they are transformed into an envelope-diaper (relevant for discharge from the maternity hospital);
• if necessary, can become a kid's rug for games.

The universality of pompon blankets makes them special and in demand. And given their unusual appearance, they are desirable in every home.

Blankets made of pompons - canvases of different lengths and widths with an unusual texture. It is a colorful bedspread of round or oval elements, located close to each other. A pom-pom is a tight ball of yarn, other fibers, or a thickened thread. Combined with a variety of similar elements, it provides the rug with a special relief texture and warmth.

Such products bring fresh colors to the room style.

Pompom blankets:

• excellently let in air, when performing the function of a blanket-blanket, do not overheat the user's body (excluding flow formation);
• not limited in shape: they are classical rectangular, in the form of an oval, square, circle, hexagon, silhouettes of an animal, an insect and fruit;
• never repeated, therefore recognized as exclusive things;
• based on the features of the size range, suitable for furniture with different dimensions;
• designed for children and adults, decorating the accent zone of the room (relevant in the design of the bedroom, living room, kitchen, nursery);

• made of natural, artificial yarns and yarn of mixed composition, not irritating the user's skin (wool, acrylic, limbage, cotton, velsoft, cashmere, etc.);
• they do not need wet-heat treatment and are completely self-sufficient without additional decoration;
• they are not limited in the color palette, therefore they can be made from colors of any shade in a monophonic or melange version with a pattern of contrasting threads;
• able to make the atmosphere in the room home comfort and warmth;

• performed from small fragments of light tones create a visual effect of a large space;
• they are an independent accent of the room or component of the set, supplemented with covers for decorative pillows or identical capes on the backs of the sofa (armchair);
• can be made separately from the general idea of ​​room design or customized to a specific piece of furniture;
• performed from natural wool fibers, have health benefits.

Woolen Pompom Blankets - favorites among such accessories. Due to the special structure of the fiber and the availability of natural antiseptic lanolin, they, like the usual wool counterparts, are useful for humans.

Such models:

• create and maintain the "right" climate between the body and the rug, so overheating is impossible even in the case of a dense arrangement of woolen balls;
• have a beneficial effect on the human body, increasing its immunity to colds and calming the nervous system;
• establish the work of the circulatory system and relax the muscles of the body, increasing the comfort of rest (sleep);
• with regular use, they can reduce pain in the lumbar region, neck, back, save the user from an unpleasant feeling of numbness of the limbs.

With a lot of positive qualities, plaids of pompons have several drawbacks:

• need a considerable amount of time to create, patience and perseverance in the work;
• performed from a larger amount of raw materials compared to conventional knitted counterparts;
• they are distinguished by a large weight of the finished rug (especially models for a half, double bed or a large sofa)
• need careful washing without mechanical movements;

• require delicate handling, otherwise they can crumble into separate segments of the threads;
• in products from natural raw materials are prone to the appearance of moths, if they are not washed or stored in a dark place (a damaged thread attaching the pompom leads to the ball spilling);
• due to its texture, it is well “collected” dust, provoking the appearance of dust mites - the causes of pruritus;
• After washing, they have an unsightly appearance, so they need to smooth each pom-pom.

In addition, manual labor is expensive. It is calculated at the rate per 1 meter of raw materials used for the total amount or at the rate of time spent at the rate per hour. Save does not work: both ways are quite expensive.

Such products are made exclusively at home by one of the following techniques:

• Classic knitted method of special pompon yarn on the principle of order knitting;
• fragmented method with the use of additional devices and pre-assembly of balls-pompons;
• solid canvas on a sewing machine, in which the blanket is created from a special yarn-band with often located pompoms along the edges;
• unconventional, in which the main tool is a wooden frame.

This method is a knitting of the fabric of yarn with thickenings, which give the product texture. This blanket is very soft, double-sided, knits on the principle of a scarf and does not need additional decor, which simplifies the texture. The work uses one thread, whose pompons can be of one or several shades, which determines the color of the product.

The fragmentary method is quite time-consuming: it begins with the execution of many separate blanks-pompons. To do this, they perform the old-fashioned way, using double cardboard blanks with a hole in the center for winding yarn.Having reeled up the necessary quantity of threads, they are connected by a strong knot, then cut by a larger diameter between two cardboard rings. The assembly is carried out by manually linking the fragments.

The easiest, but not the cheapest method of manufacturing is to use a special yarn-band with multi-colored pom-poms on transverse threads. The creation will take a minimum of time, and the model will turn out not only special, but also durable. Band sewn one on another, cutting it into strips of identical length or not cutting, in a circle, not forgetting to add in the corners allowance for each subsequent row.

This method is the most creative and allows you to create a whole canvas without compromising the quality and appearance of the pompons. The whole difficulty of creating a plaid lies in the preparation of a special device, which can be a wooden frame or a sheet of plywood with nails nailed around the perimeter at the same distance.

No mating: a pom-pom plaid is created by winding the threads in a certain sequence until the desired number of layers is reached (30 or more). A device with a wound yarn resembles a plain weave.After winding, each cross is fixed with tight knots of double warp threads, after which the required number of layers is counted and the threads are cut. It turns out a blanket on a powerful and solid basis.

Despite the external beauty, there are differences between pompon blankets. If you want to buy or order such an accessory for yourself or loved ones, you should choose products with a quality basis. It depends on it the durability of the product and its appearance after washing. In this regard, the best models will be options from pompon yarn and models made from pompon bands.

In the choice of models with balls, made independently at home, you should give preference to the product, made on the frame. Its foundation is more practical. In addition to the base, it is worth considering the number of sides: models with pompons in the form of balls have one textured, and the other smooth sides.

When choosing a product from balls-pompons, you should look at their volume and number of threads: empty pompons look poor,as if they did not have enough material. In addition to the orphan species, such a blanket has large voids between the fragments. However, excessive volume is also undesirable: the thread connecting the elements may break, which will lead to the scattering of the pom-pom.

Another factor of choice is the age of the user: the ideal choice of models for babies are knitted models of pompon yarn. In addition to the bedspread, blanket or rug, they can be an alternative to the mattress in the stroller, without harming the baby’s health and without disturbing the correct formation of the curvature of the spine. Styles with high-grade balls are beautiful, unique, but as an envelope or a changing blanket for a newborn will not work: the relief of the texture will cause discomfort to the baby from the back.

Such blankets are good as bedspreads, blankets or rugs. They will not suit a baby who just turns over and tries to crawl (they will create resistance, interfere with movement attempts, some fibers can get into the mouth).

For information on how to make a rug from pompons, see the following video.