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Lacing the rugs together was the hardest part for Pullen to learn when she decided to try the craft. “My cousin Frances Bailey made one, and when I saw it I decided that I wanted to try to make one, too,” Pullen said. “When I was first trying it took me a long time to learn, and the first rugs I did would come out looking like bowls because I would lace them too tightly.”
She kept trying, though, and she learned how to leave just enough play in the cord so that the rugs would lie flat. Pullen made most of her rugs at one time out of wool strips, but due to the difficulty of finding enough wool she began making the rugs out of polysters and cottons.
“Sometimes I have a pattern or certain colors that a person will want me to use, but I call some of the rugs hit and miss because the colors don’t match,” Pullen said. “Most of the time I use my own judgment about colors.” She does not like to take orders for rugs anymore, “since I never know
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