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Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Rappahannock has many traditions of beauty, but one of the most beautiful is being carried on by Lillie Pullen in Old Hollow. She continues a craft she began 30 years ago that is the answer for people who long for the days when products were hand-made and lasted for a lifetime or longer.
Pullen makes braided rugs of swirling colors that she guarantees will never come apart. Sitting in a rocking chair that is over a hundred yep&'old, Pullen expertly plaits strips of various colored cloth into rows. The cloth is cut into strips about two inches wide, and Pullen folds the strips so that the raw edges never show.
Whenenough strips are plaited to make a nfll^Pullen hooks the row to the oval-shaped rug with cord. Pullen hooks the rug so that the cord disappears beneath the folds of cloth. “The rugs can be used on either side because the lacing neve? shows,” said Pullen.
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