Clutter Crafting: Rugs & Carpets

When I put together those printed images a while back, I also printed off some AI generated carpet patterns. I glued some back to back, crumpled them up, and then put them under a pile of books to flatten them down a bit.

Then I forgot about them for four months.

Paladin finding origami under books on a bookcase. A realistic depiction of me reorganizing my books.

When I reorganized that bookcase last week, I found them again and decided to wrap them up. I trimmed up any edges showing white with scissors, then touched up the edges with watered down brown paint. A coat of acrylic spray to make them sturdier was the final step.

The finished crafts. Note that each carpet has a full color side and a faded side. This will give me more flexibility on putting them in a noble estate or an abandoned ruin.

Rug within a rug of a noble manor. Rug portals, rug mimics, rug trapdoors. The possibilities are limitless!

Rug Mimic. What do you mean? That rug looks perfectly safe, you’re just being paranoid.