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The craft of hand-made rugs (1920)

Hicks, Ami Mali · New York, McBride, Nast & company · leaf 72

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ed doormat isidentical with that of the pine cone and as thestructure of the pine cone is geometric the de-sign of the scalloped doormat will consequentlybe formal. If surface pattern be developed itmust come through the repetition of tone orcolor value at regular intervals on the struc-ture or… … THE SCALLOPED DOORMAT 55 has less tendency to turn up and fray. Eachscallop must be finished all around with a but-ton-hole stitch before it is sewed down on theburlap foundation. After the scallops are allsewed on, they are held in place on the founda-tion by a star-shaped stitch. For this chapter…

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