Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-02-20
Farm and Household.
Rag Carpets.

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rip them to pieces, rejecting the
parts too worn to be used if not
ready to color them tie in bun
dies all that are to be colOred
each color, and any that do not
need coloring may be cut and
sewed, or tied up by themselves,
if not ready to commence the
work. All wooden ones ought to
be keptin linen sacks,to exclude
the moths from them.
Any light, mixed, or plaided
woolens may be improved in color
by dipping in a good red dye.
Clean white rags can be colored
yellow, orange, blue or green.
Dingy white rags will look well,
colored hemlock color and set
with lime. This is a cheap, pret-
ly and durable color for some of
the rags and warp. Bits of bark
may be gathered around sawmills
when one cannot get it elsewhere
boil enough bark to make a strong
dye, and add to it a little. clear
lime water, ,after removing all bits
of bark or straining the dye. If
dregs remain in any dye. it will
spot the cloth or yarn.
If smooth parlor carpet is
wanted,use rags that are made of
fine yarn. Coarse threaded wool
en- rags make a carpet look rough
and though it may do well enough
for a kitchrn, it is not SO nice for
a parlor.
Unless the rags are all light it
will take pound and a half,and
sometimes more, for each yard of
carpet. To know when sufficient
rags are prepared for the number
of yards wanted, the prepared
rags must be weighed. If the
ragsare light,it will not take quite
a pound and a half, but if they
are coarse threaded or woolen
rags, it will take more than a
pound and half, if the carpet is
well beaten up.
If a striped carpet is wanted
tear color separately, and mix to-
gether the different shades of the
same color when sewing,this will
make the carpet more uniform in
color and prettier than if some
stripes contained all the brightest
colors, and others paler ones,
which they will, if the shades of
the same color are not mixed in
sewing. A carpet always looks
much better if all the breadths
are uniform in color and by
mixing the shades of the same
color in sewing them it will be
so. D. lf r 81
For a hap hazard carpet all diff
ferent colors may be mixed in
sewing. This will use up all the
short rags, OF any color or shade
and often makes a very pretty
carpet, which may be woven cas-
ier and cheaper than any striped
carpet. Short pieces, or those
not more than three or four yards
long,alternately with shorter one
look the best in this kind of car
pet. HB 4Fig.iAS lii
For warp, good strong prepared
yarn is the best, and saves much
labor. 1t may be reeled into skeins
of five knots before coloring. Al
lowing one skein to the yard and
about knots over, to be woven
in at the end of each breadth, for
binding.
c Measure the inside of the room
and let the weaver know how
long to make each breadth. Car
pets will shrink a little in length
from the weaver's measure after
they come out of the loom, but
will often stretch a little in width.
The stripes will match the best,
If the edges on the same side of
the loom are sewed together, as
the different side ofthe loom some
times vary a littile.-H. E. s., in
Rura1 Nep Yorker.