THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1936.
TRY YOUR HAND AT RUG-MAKING
This one is easy & looks
MOST people try to make
their houses reflect their individual tastes. Rugs made to your own design and taste play an important part in the make-up of your colour schemes.
Rug making to-day has been made so simple and straight
forward that nobody need heai- tate to start on one.
Good for a Start.
HERE is an excellent de sign for a beginner, as it presents no difficulties. First of all, buy the correct canvas, which is divided into squares by a blue line. The next question is the wool. This can be bought ready cut, or can be cut into correct lengths by winding over a wool gauge, which has a groove along ane end.
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Always buy enough wool for that it will resist the pull exerted the rug before you start, as it is when malting the knots. often difficult to match up the Choose a Design colours.
Follow the Diagram
THE Intchet hook is easy to use, and after a little practice the action of the latch becomes automatic. grams show exactly how the knot is made.
The dia-
Always work the rug by plae- ing the canvas on a table with the selvedge at the sides and work It is a mistake to row by row. work in portions of the design indiscriminately.
It is a good idea to put a weight on the canvas in front of you, so
You can
METHOD
RUG can be worked from
A a chart, or the design
may be washed in. using oil- colours or stencil colours. When this is done fill in the colours chosen for the rug.
Allow about din at each cul end of the canvas to turn in when the rug is finished.
The edges of all rugs shoukt be finished with either non-slip bind- ing or a special ulhesive tape. There is no need to line rug un- less it is to be used on a rough or
uneven surface.
A rug measuring 45in by 27in would require about 8lb of wool.
off white
Indian red
use either of these
can use
FIGURE. No. 1
FIGURE No. 2
Place a piece of
FIGURE No. 3
Put Push the hook
the double
down through onc end of wool into the through the one-im--£ue of hook and pull
hook. mediately in front.
cut wool doubled be square and
hind the latch.
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METHOD Basfor
FIGURE A
Push hook under double thread of canvas until the lat- the chet is through the
canvas;
FIGURE B·
Pull the hook until
looped wool
then catch comes under the can- the loop-of-a-double.
vas threads, piece of wool.
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FIGURE C
Push the hook and latchel back through the looped wool and catch hook round
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FIGURE D
Pull hook back, wool bringing the ends through the and tighten knot by pulling the -two-ends.
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The Only Drawback
Rights & Wrongs for
MAKERS
RUG
When working on hessian, keep the needle on it all the time, like a pen on paper. You are bound to keep the loops even this way.
Remember that some Arms sell thick rug woal alreally cut in neut little bundles,
You can buy canvas cut to the shape you want the rug to be and with the pattern ready stencilled upon it.
Try being your own designer. Use squared paper and draw your The dressmakern call thesa olen pattern with coloured wax crayons. sketches "croquis," and it is quite easy to carry them out upon the
canvas.
If using your own design for the first time, make something small, and the simpler the better until you gain experience,
Never work more than three rows before cutting the pile, other- wise your hands will get very tired and on won't achieve an even surface.
Don't send your rugs and cushion covers to be cleaned. They wash beautifully, just like a woollie,
When beginning the rug, turn under about 5 or 6' rows of the canvas and work through the double thickness. This forms a strong selvedge edge. Repeat this method at the finish.
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Always start at one end of the canvas and follow through. If you start at both ends and work towards the middle, the pile will te in different directions and look woly,
When the rug is finished, the whole should be thoroughly rubbed with the hands to bring away the surface fluff. If you are not cutting the pile short, the finished surface should be trimmed with scissors to make t quite even
Circular and oval rugs must be bound afterwards, as you cannot To keep the 'carpet make a selvedge on these as described above. binding in position, take the stitches through the canvas and not. through the wool:
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