Finishing Raw Carpet Edges

By

ellablue

I got binding at a thrift store and hot glued it to my carpet. It looked great.

By

Deeli

I am thinking using iron on binding you can get at a fabric store should work. If the carpet is acrylic you'll want to be careful to only allow the hot iron to touch the binding as you firmly iron/press it on the top edges of the carpet side and then flip the carpet to iron/press the other edge of the binding around to the jute underside the same way.

By

2oma

Remnant Carpet Store, 29th east of Penn, does edges for $1 a foot.
Hope that helps.

By

Ginnywest

In some areas, you can take your carpet piece and get them bound by a rug store; take a look in your local online yellow pages or paper yellow pages. Also, once not too long ago, either in Home Depot or Lowes, I saw that they had a stick on edging that looked line the edge stitch that you would get if you stitched a rug. It looked like it wrapped around the edge of the remnant. Good luck.

By

fatboyslimsmom

How about looking in the hardware dept, for different colors of duct tape? I know it sounds weird, but it the tape matches or coordinates with the carpet, and is wide enough, you can apply it similar to wide blanket binding. Start from the back side, applying the tape, where the carpet edge meets the center line of the tape, that way you can fold the tape onto the top side. Work in small sections at a time, so the tape will lay flat. You can even cut shorter pieces of the tape to work with, since it isn't cloth or fabric, it won't fray. Hope you can find something that works for you, sounds like a great deal that you got!

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to finish off the edges of cut pieces of carpet?