Have just had a word with my mother ( b. 1928) about rag-rugs:
As newly-weds in 1948, she and my dad used to spend evenings in their 2-room rented house ( lucky to get even that, as housing was in short supply after the war), making rag-rugs together using the family's communal frame.
The floors were stone covered with lino and the only way to get rugs was to make your own.
Mum and Dad came a long way from that set-up in 1948 ( 2 rooms, outside earth closet toilet + water from pump in the yard) to a centrally-heated, fully, fitted carpeted bungalow by the mid-1960's!
Well done, Mum and Dad!