THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1988.
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 tasto 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 heat- tale 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 one end.
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Always bay enough wool for that it will resist the pull exerted the rug before you start, as it is when making the knots. often difficult to match up the Choose a Design colours.
Follow the Diagram
THE latchet hook is easy 'to use, ami after a little practice the action of the latch, The dia- becomes automatic. grams show exactly how the knot is made.
Always work the rug by plac- ing the canvas on a table with the selvedge at the sides and work row by row. It is a mistake to 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 can
use
A RUG can be worked from a chart, or the design may be washed in using oil- colours or stencil colours. When this is done fill in the colourn chosen for the rug.
Allow about 4in at each cut end
of the canvas to turn in when the
rug is finished.
The edges of all rugs should be finished with either non-slip bind- ing or a special adhesive 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 8b of wool.
off white
Indian red
light brown
black
either of these methods
METHOD Aarva
FIGURE No. 1
Place a piece of
cut wool doubled be- square
hind the latch.
FIGÙRE No. 2
kook the Push down through one
and
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through the one im- mediately in front.
FIGURE No. 3
Put the double
end of wool into the
cyc of hook and pull
Hook
METHOD B
FIGURE A
Push hook under double thread of canvas until the lat- the chet is through the canvas; then catch the loop of a double, pirec-of-wool.
FIGURE B
Pull the hook until
tool
louped comes under the can-
pas_threads
FIGURE C
FIGURE D
Push the hook and Pull hook back, latchet back through bringing the wool the looped wool and ends through the catch hook round
and tighten loop, both ends of the wool held in the knot by pulling the,
_two_ends,
fingers..
Rights & Wrongs for
MAKERS
RUG
When working on hessian, keep the necille on it all the time, Uke a pen on paper. You are bound to keep the loops even this way.
Remember that some firms sell thick ritg wool already cut in neat ittle bundles,
You can buy corvas 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 ani draw your oten natters with coloured war crayons. The dressmakers call these 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 you won't achieve an even surface.
"Don't and your rugs and cushion covers to be cleaned. They wash beautifully, just like a woullie,
When beginning the rug, turn under about 5 or 6 rows of the Thla forms a strong canvas and 10ork through the double thickness. 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 lie in different directions and look ugly.
When the rug is finished, the whole should be thoroughly rubbed with the hands to bring nung the surface fluff. If you are not cutting the pile short, the finished surface should be trimmed with scissors
it to make
even. quite Circular and ovat rugs must be bound afterwards, as you cannot make a selvedge on these as described above. To keep the carpet binding in position, take the stitches through the canvas and not through the wool.
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