Interested in making rugs? Keep reading and we will recommend you some of the places where they are taught the best tufting workshop in Houston. In this article and we will tell you everything you need to know to sign up for one and remember that you don’t need any experience to start with this beautiful and new art.
528 Entertainment
This Houston based workshop offers more than three types of projects to all students who wants to know more about tufting. It focuses, more than anything else, on teaching them how to handle the gun so that they finish their piece. Once the tufted part is finished, 528 Entertainment team will apply a backing, trim the surface and clean it so you can pick it up another day.
| Project | Size | Price |
| Rug S | 18”x18” | $74 |
| Rug M | 24”x28” | $94 |
| Rug L | 36”x36” | $144 |
| Rug XL | Inquiry for sizes | Inquiry for prices |
Location
11925 Southwest Fwy Suite 3B, Stafford, TX 77477
Hours
Monday to Sunday 12:00pm – 02:00am
Contact
- Instagram: @528entertainment.hou
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: (408) 242-3570
- Web: https://528entertainmenttx.com/
Habibi Bazaar
Lebanese brand founded by designer Pamela El Gregi in 2021, its goal is representing through art the Southwest Asian and North African community. Habibi Bazaar often offers tufting workshops for beginners in Houston, Texas. In these workshops you will leave with a rug or wall hanging of 24 x 24 inch and information on how start tufting in home. In six hours you will learn how to set up a frame, stretch the cloth, how to operate the machines and how to trim, cut, glue and back your tufted piece. Remember you will be supervised throughout the whole session.
Price
$250
What’s included?
- All equipment required: projector, frame, cloth, yarn, tufting gun, trimming clippers, scissors.
- Snacks and drinks
Location
Arlo Buffalo Heights, 225 South Heights Boulevard, Houston, TX 77007
Hours
Check her website because they have specific dates for the workshops
Contact
- Instagram: @habibibazaar
- Web: habibibazaar.com
Tuft The World
TTW is a well known brand focus in tufting. It sells supplies like tufting guns, clippers, cotton yarn, wool yarn, fabrics (primary and backing) and they have not missed the opportunity to conduct workshops on rug making. These workshops are given in Philadelphia where their headquarters are located in but throughout the year they have been offering classes around the United States so we highly recommend following them on instagram so you don’t miss any updates about the workshops. Also they sell an online course for $99, you can check it here.
Price
$99 online course
$225 – $250 depending on the city. It includes all the supplies and a small frame you can take home
Location
Depends on the city
Hours
Check their website because they have specific dates for the workshops
Contact
- Instagram: @tuft_the_world
- Email: [email protected]
- Web: https://tuftinggun.com/
Sadly there are not so many rug tufting workshops in Houston but you can start learning with videos on YouTube, as much people have done. We leave you a very complete video from Rug Babe, promise you will learn a lot with it.