The Knitted Rug Page 10
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Unwind the hanks which have been wound with raffia and reserved for the mottled green. Soak them all in a solution of washing soda made of one-fourth of a pound of washing soda and one gallon of water. Put the hanks in this solution when it is hot and let them stay in it all night. Tie up the extract of quercitron in a cheesecloth bag and let it soak in an earthen-ware bowl over night in a quart of water. The extract which comes in the form of a dry paste contains a certain amount of tannin, which turns the dye from clear to muddy yellow if dissolved by long boiling. So it is necessary to soak the paste beforehand, and have it ready to pour in the dye kettle when this has been brought to the boiling point.
Fill a copper kettle with four gallons of water, bring it to a boil; pour in the quercitron juice but do not drop the bag with the extract in the kettle. Then taking the hanks out of the soda solution, drop them into the boiling dye kettle, two at a time, let them stay there only a few minutes or until they are turned green. If the yellow dye in the kettle becomes exhausted, pour some boiling water into the bowl with the cheesecloth bag, and add the extract to the dye bath.
When the greening process is completed, wring out all the thread, the plain green, the mottled green and yellow and after rinsing it thoroughly, dry it.
Then undo all the hanks and wind them into balls. Now the material is all prepared and the knitting of the rug can be begun.
KNITTING THE RUG
The round knitted rug is made of wedge-shaped sections in the same manner as the circular shoulder cape. The sections are knitted continuously and twelve are needed to complete the circle.
There is only one seam which comes where the sides of the first and the last section meet and are sewed together. The sections are shaped by leaving one stitch un-knitted in each row of stitches.
These rows of stitches form the knitted ribs which radiate from the center of the rug and give it the characteristic appearance.
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The Hooked Rug In Cotton And Wool
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The Colonial Rag Rug - Some Applications
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