Tutorial: Pottery Barn Burlap Table Runner with Perfect Edges

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Hello!

I hope you had a fun 4th of July yesterday!

Ella and I both ate our weight in watermelon, and had a lovely time visiting with friends.

It was wonderful.

I have had quite a few people ask me questions about this table runner I made {I posted pictures of my dining room here}, so I thought I would post a tutorial. It is the easiest table runner you will ever make! And I love how it matches all of my various seasonal decor and adds so much fun texture to my table.

After I made it last fall, I was walking through the Pottery Barn store and saw this!

Look familiar?


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They wanted about $50 for theirs, if I remember correctly, and I made mine for much, much cheaper! {Check out BurlapFabric.com for great prices} And, I still had leftover burlap for other projects!

Step 1: Purchase your burlap {I love the blonde burlap, but you could use whatever you like} and wash and prepare it as I show in the tutorial here. This gets a lot of the smell out and evens out the edges perfectly like the Pottery Barn one above.

Step 2: Lay your nicely prepared burlap out on a flat surface and measure to the width you want to cut your runner. I  made mine 24" wide {including fringe} by 67" long, but you will want to make it fit your table.

Step 3: Begin to pull one of the burlap threads {just as you did in preparing it} at that point you just measured. You will want to be careful as you do it, making sure you don't break the thread.

{I apologize for the gross nails... the polish looked so much better a week ago... :)}

Step 4: Pull your thread from the entire length of your piece.

This will leave a guide for you to cut your straight line.

Step 5: Cut the entire length of your runner using your guide line, making sure to not cut the threads on either side of it.

When you are finished, you should have a nice, evenly cut piece of burlap the dimensions of your table runner.

Step 6: To get the charming Pottery Barn look, pull out more of the threads from all of the sides. I pulled out about ten from each side of mine.

Once you have repeated this on all of the sides, you are finished!

Wasn't that easy!?



I think it would be fun to make them in various colors of burlap, although I have a feeling I would gravitate toward using this one the most! I just love the blonde burlap. 

I hope you are enjoying your week!

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You may also enjoy these burlap posts {just click on the picture to take you there}:

Pottery Barn Frame and Burlap Mat

How to Wash and Cut Burlap Tutorial