Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-03-02

These useful articles, SAYS the New York
Tribune, were neKsr more III vogue than now.
In many houses they cover the greater part
OF the floors, taking the place of carpets.
Anybody who has money can buy a carpet
but it takes skill and taste and industry to
make one out of such materials as are fur
nished by out-wear of every day clothes yet
this can be done, and the homemade article
be serviceable and almost as handsome as the
purchased one.
A good way to use up old wooden stockings
and knit WOODEN goods of every sort is t. wash
them very clean, ravel them, and then knit
the yarn in strips the length the rug is to be-
Have the knit strips an inch wide, and after
dampening them press them till dry with a
warm iron, to set the crinkle in them. Then
cut each strip down the middle, making two
of it. Sew these strips to a foundation of
three-ply or ingram by their selvage edge, and
then ravel the cut stitches. The strips should
be placed together SO as to cover the founda-
ton perfectly The colors can be arranged
to suit the taste of the knitter All wooden
yarn works up well in this way, and as it can
be knit at odd moments the investment of
time Is not bad one, and the result is very
satisfactory.
Another easy and effective way is to cut the
goods to BIO used in strips an inch wide and
gather them along the middle with strong
done to cover the foundation prepared, begin
in the middle of the foundation and sew the
rope thus made round and round until all is
sewed on fill up the corners, and if the edge
was finished before the rope was sewed on. as
it should have been, your rug is done. This
uses up the rags very fast, and more econ
omieal way is the following: Cut circular
pieces an inch in diameter, and, having pre-
pared a foundation of carpeting or heavy
wooden cloth, sew these pieces one by one
through the centre to the foundation, having
them very close together. Outline forms may
be made on the foundation, which will make
pretty figures in the rug when finished. This
method utilizes all the little pieces one may
have.
Another way is, after having designed your
pattern, to cut out pieces of cloth correspond
ing to the pattern and embroider them more
or less deliberately; then sew them to the
foundation, and fill in the groundwork with
any little device your fancy may suggest
Border the whole with a fringe of some sort
Small rugs made in this way may serve as
choice bits of coloring, and are to be laid be-
fore small table.
Braided mats everybody can make Cotton
and wooden are almost equally good made up
in this way. The centre of the mat may be
bright piece of carpeting neatly bound, and
1t may be cut circular, oblong or square, ac-
cording to the shape desired in the rug. This
method uses up rags very fast, and is recon-
mended where it is desired to get them out of
the way quickly. The thread used to sew
braided mats should be of the very strongest
as it is always the first to wear out.
Knit rugs are pretty when properly made.
Tear the rags into strips, sew them together,
and wind into balls as for making rag carpets.
Then with wooden needles knit them in strips
two inches or more wide and as long as desir.
ed. Sew the strips together, line the whole
with burlap, put on fringe, and the rug is
done. Soft wooden goods work up well in this
way.
Almost perfect limitations of Turkish rugs
may be made in this way Take a piece of