How to Make Rugs

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How to Make Rugs, by Candace Wheeler, has chapters on rug weaving, the pattern, dyeing, ingrain carpet rugs and woven rag portieres. Candace Wheeler is named as the author of Principles of Home Decoration, and the work is given as published in October, 1902. The text says the wife of a poor farmer has less pecuniary independence, less money to spend, and fewer ways of gaining it, than any other woman of equal education and character in America. The text says it is natural to ask why the re-establishment of farmhouse manufactures, or the encouragement and development of them, is a desirable movement.

The text says that, treated in this way, an old silk gown takes on quite a new value and becomes invested with absorbing interest. The text describes a portiere with rose colour at the top, obtained by a filling of light red woven upon the ivory white warp.