Rug Designing

Extract

The usual method of making rugs with cut wool on canvas is to hook a piece of wool into each hole. This process causes the pieces to become very crowded; and, besides being slow in showing results, it is laborious and costly It is usual, moreover, to follow a pattern drawn on the canvas, and the pattern is seldom one to appeal to a mathematician, Victorian in conception as it so often is with its display of flowers and fruits.