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Dyestuffs and Chemicals Needed for Setting the Indigo Vat: One pound of ground indigo; two and one-half pounds of copperas chemically pure, and three pounds of slaked lime.

Dyestuffs and Chemicals for Greening Over Indigo: One ounce of extract of quercitron bark, one pound of washing soda.

Utensils: One five-gallon copper kettle, two wooden sticks to lift the goods and a pair of rubber gloves.

PREPARATION OF MATERIALS
Take sixteen yards of unbleached cotton muslin, and after having washed and ironed it divide it into four lengths of four yards each, tear these four lengths into strips, three-fourths of an inch in width according to the method described for tearing surgeons' bandages in the chapter on the braided rug. These strips will be used as thread for knitting the rug. Divide the thread into sixteen equal parts and then wind these parts into hanks being sure to fasten the loops as one would a skein of worsted. Make the hanks about twelve inches long. Eight of them are to be dyed a plain dark green and the remaining eight, a mottled green and yellow.

An Old Fashioned Hit And Miss Knitted Rag Rug - This Type Rug Show Little Planning Of Design.The eight hanks are to be prepared by a method known to dyers as the reserve method, a process which is used to keep the dye from reaching certain portions of the fabric. The portion which is reserved retains its original color. In this case we wish to have a thread with green and yellow shadings, so parts of the unbleached hanks of thread must first be covered before it is dyed blue with indigo in order to reserve other parts which are afterwards to be dyed yellow. Thus the part of the hank which is not reserved becomes green while the reserve part will remain the unbleached tone, and on being uncovered and immersed in the yellow dye bath, will get its color from the yellow dye.

The hanks of thread kept apart for the mottied effect must be wrapped tightly with the raffia. The part covered with raffia must come within three inches of each end of the hank; this leaves six inches of the center wrapped around with the raffia.

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The Craft Of Handmade Rugs - View The Rest Of The Book

Introduction - Some Old Time Rugs - A Word About Dyes - The Braided Rug - The Scalloped Doormat Or Tongue Rug - The Crocheted 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

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