The Crocheted Rug
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However humble may be the kindred crafts of knitting and crocheting, much interest may be developed in them through a thoughtful consideration of their technical possibilities. Any one, you would say, can crochet even if she cannot knit. So much the better then, for more craft workers will find that even such a simple art as crocheting combined with thought and de-sign can be made worth while.
The crocheted rug in this chapter is related to the knitted rug of the preceding chapter through the tool used in making it, for they are both needle-made rugs. But here the likeness ends, for the crocheted rug is more closely related to the braided rug of the first chapter because of actual similarity in the construction. Though the. braided rug is made with a very different kind of needle from the knitting needle, its coiled construction is also characteristic of the crocheted rug.
In the braided rug, the three-stranded braid begins at the central point of the rug's construction, and grows around and around it in widening curves out toward the edge. The action of the braid in this rug gives its design a distinctive appearance and produces certain ornamental effects which cannot be obtained by any other manner of rug-making.
THE DESIGN
The stitch of the crocheted rug, which, decoratively speaking, is its unit of construction, has a line action similar to that of the braided rug, and also controls its design.
The Craft Of Handmade Rugs - View The Rest Of The Book
Introduction - Some Old Time Rugs
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A Word About Dyes - The Braided Rug -
The Scalloped Doormat Or Tongue Rug - The
Knitted Rug -
The Hooked Rug In Cotton And Wool
- The Needle-Woven Rug
The Colonial Rag Rug - Some Applications
- Newer Methods Of Stencil Making
- The Tufted Counterpane
Old Time Lights - The Batik Or
Wax Resist Process