Making your own rugs using looming or latching techniques may be a solution but they too can be difficult and expensive to make.
Making a rag rug with plarn.
Great for outdoors at the front door or in the bathroom rag rugs made out of plastic carrier bags make surprisingly great mats.
Not only can you turn empty bread bags into yarn you can use the plastic grocery bags that pile up with each trip to the supermarket to make a round rug.
Rag rugs made from inexpensive easy to find fabrics on the other hand are a great alternative.
Plastic bag yarn is called plarn.
Mar 16 2013 explore barbara myers s board plarn braided rug followed by 177 people on pinterest.
Here is an upcycling tutorial on how to make them.