Rugs, quite as comfortable and almost equal in appearance to the much-admired knitted Brussels rugs, may be made as follows : Take bur- laps, canvas — or coffee sacks — and from them cut a foundation the size you wish your rug. Gather up all the bits of worsted ravelings, zephyrs, shreds of merinoes, flannel, etc. — no matter what the shade of color, provided it is woolen, and cut the flannel or merinoes in strips as nar- row as will hold together. Roll these strips up into little tufts or bunches and tack firmly to the foundation, sewing on in alternate rows -until your foundation is covered. Of course a great deal of taste may be displayed in the arrangement of the colors. Another way to make a pretty rug is, by taking such scraps as you may have, in variety of woolen,or part woolen materials, delaines, alpacas, HOME-MADE RUGS AND CARPETS. 323 merinoes, etc. — the larger flowered and more " old-fashioned " the bet- ter— cut in four or five inch squares, fold three-cornered, and with needle and thread gather up in form of a shell, and sew on in alternate rows on a firm foundation. These rugs are very beautiful, when made entirely of scraps of the different flowered Tycoon reps, that were so much in vogue for morning wrappers or dressing-gowns a few years ago. On a deep border made of Tycoon reps, the background of grey or brown, and the center made of flowers and leaves made of tiny shells of grey colors and green, it is especially pretty. Still another way to make a pretty rug is as follows: Cut a founda- tion of nice burlaps the desired size, fringe to a depth of four inches on each edge, and make a deep border by sewing strips alternately of dark brown, deep blue, scarlet, and very pale blue " drag braid." The braid of each color should be one-third of an inch or more apart, the outer edge of e^cnlrow buttonholed to the canvas with pale salmon zephyr, and the inside edge with shaded green. Make an application center- piece, and mi the intervening space by working here and there in zephyr of some neutral tint, stars, geometrical figures, etc. One can be crocheted in this way : Cut the rags the same as for carpet, crochet a chain twelve stitches long, then crochet on both sides of the chain in double stitch, cut off the ball and tack on another color ; crochet two rows around, cut off and sew on another color, two rows around, and so on until the rug is large enough. If the bright colors are mixed in with the dull ones, a yard at a time, it makes a spotted rug. Handsome rugs can be made by using black and red knitting yarn, and crocheting, in Afghan stitch, three strips eight inches wide and three feet long ; make one black stripe and two red ones ; when finished take red zephyr and work a vine in cross-stitch embroidery the full length of the black stripe ; use black zephyr and work a border pattern on each red stripe ; now sew them all together and line the rug with burlaps. Fringe the two ends (or all around as preferred), using alter- nate colors.

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Rugs, quite as comfortable and almost equal in appearance to the much-admired knitted Brussels rugs, may be made as follows : Take burlaps, canvas — or coffee sacks — and from them cut a foundation the size you wish your rug. Gather up all the bits of worsted ravelings, zephyrs, shreds of merinoes, flannel, etc. — no matter what the shade of color, provided it is woolen, and cut the flannel or merinoes in strips as narrow as will hold together. Roll these strips up into little tufts or bunches and tack firmly to the foundation, sewing on in alternate rows -until your foundation is covered. Of course a great deal of taste may be displayed in the arrangement of the colors. Another way to make a pretty rug is, by taking such scraps as you may have, in variety of woolen,or part woolen materials, delaines, alpacas, HOME-MADE RUGS AND CARPETS. 323 merinoes, etc. — the larger flowered and more " old-fashioned " the better— cut in four or five inch squares, fold three-cornered, and with needle and thread gather up in form of a shell, and sew on in alternate rows on a firm foundation. These rugs are very beautiful, when made entirely of scraps of the different flowered Tycoon reps, that were so much in vogue for morning wrappers or dressing-gowns a few years ago. On a deep border made of Tycoon reps, the background of grey or brown, and the center made of flowers and leaves made of tiny shells of grey colors and green, it is especially pretty. Still another way to make a pretty rug is as follows: Cut a foundation of nice burlaps the desired size, fringe to a depth of four inches on each edge, and make a deep border by sewing strips alternately of dark brown, deep blue, scarlet, and very pale blue " drag braid." The braid of each color should be one-third of an inch or more apart, the outer edge of each row buttonholed to the canvas with pale salmon zephyr, and the inside edge with shaded green. Make an application centerpiece, and mi the intervening space by working here and there in zephyr of some neutral tint, stars, geometrical figures, etc. One can be crocheted in this way : Cut the rags the same as for carpet, crochet a chain twelve stitches long, then crochet on both sides of the chain in double stitch, cut off the ball and tack on another color ; crochet two rows around, cut off and sew on another color, two rows around, and so on until the rug is large enough. If the bright colors are mixed in with the dull ones, a yard at a time, it makes a spotted rug. Handsome rugs can be made by using black and red knitting yarn, and crocheting, in Afghan stitch, three strips eight inches wide and three feet long ; make one black stripe and two red ones ; when finished take red zephyr and work a vine in cross-stitch embroidery the full length of the black stripe ; use black zephyr and work a border pattern on each red stripe ; now sew them all together and line the rug with burlaps. Fringe the two ends (or all around as preferred), using alternate colors.

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