got Rick Rack?? check these out.

Mar 16, 2010 1 Replies

found one of these sites with the rick rack flowers and got so intrigued i googled and found these others too. who knew.



in no particular order...



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i found more but will let that be enough. yes, yes, i know there are a lot of links but there are lots of ways to make flowers et al with rick rack, dont you want to see lots of them? just to look, then if/when you come across any rick rack in your sewing room when cleaning it out you'll have another thing to play with. could come in handy one day. j.


Piecework magazine published an article about the history of rick- rack. ("Make Plain Things Beautiful," May/June 1994, p. 74, thanks to the helpful index at

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It's always interesting to me how things are manufactured -- the complexity of machinery to weave that type of braid.

Nann who looks for unopened packages of trims at garage sales (and it's almost garage sale season!)

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