Inside Out Library · Explore

The craft of hand-made rugs (1920)

Hicks, Ami Mali · New York, McBride, Nast & company · leaf 178

An illustration from The craft of hand-made rugs, 1920, leaf 178
A PRIMITIVE LOOM THE NEEDLE-WOVEN RUG 143 and when well packed together it makesa surface almost identical with the felted sur-face of the wool Navajo rug. Candle wick-ing is easily dyed too and this recommendsit. The rug in the illustration is made of candlewickLng, dyed in four colors, light… … The design. blue gray, light gray green and very dark navyblue. Another very satisfactory and convenientmaterial is the well-known cotton cloth torninto very fine strips and these strips used asyam. This is what we shall use for the modelrug. This material will be found very effectivefor the…

Handicraft · Rugs

Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The craft of hand-made rugs

More like this