WHAT IS SHIRRET?
This crochet looks
e x p e n s i v e

And you say it's made from recycled scraps ?

Two basic crochet stitches, a
special hook, cord, and scraps ! make it luxurious.

TRY SHIRRET FOR $10 TO $17

ShiRRéT is a plush 3/4 inch high. The surface is the fabric edges.
It's reversible.

"You can't fool me. These are made from foam rubber," declared a gentleman at theChicago Knitting & Crochet Guild of America conference.

Recycle wool - cotton - silk -
polyester - rayon - doubleknit - old clothes, curtains–– into ShiRRéT carpetbags, bedside rag rugs, BROOCHES, berets !

THE ART OF SHIRRET book of patterns
and pictures $17

"My clothes weren't this special when I was wearing them."

 

 

 

"ShiRRéT looks like the Orientalist needlepoint tapestries in the British great manor houses and at Liberty of London"
––Candace Bahouth, UK tapestry author-artist and sister of Greenpeace International director Peter Bahouth.

Shirret has also been called:
shirred and standing rugs, caterpiller rugs, ruffley rugs, Rugbee rugs, American tapestry.