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    How to make rugs
    How to make rugs
    How to make rugs
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    How to make rugs

    By Candace Wheeler

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    This work concisely presents practical information on rug-making. In addition, the writer makes the readers acquainted with the history of the rug industry.
    Contents include:
    Foreword: Home Industries and Domestic Manufactures
    Rug Weaving
    The Pattern
    Dyeing
    Ingrain Carpet Rugs
    Woven Rag Portieres
    Woolen Rugs
    Cotton Rugs
    Linsey Woolsey
    Neighbourhood Industries: After-word
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 25, 2021
    ISBN4057664597205
    How to make rugs
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    Candace Wheeler

    Name: Candace Wheeler<br>Hometown: Stone Mountain, GA<br>Major: Sociology<br>Fun Fact: Candace hopes to publish her own culture and lifestyle magazine upon graduation from Spelman College.<br>Previous Contributors: Tiffani Murray

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      How to make rugs - Candace Wheeler

      Candace Wheeler

      How to make rugs

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      [email protected]

      EAN 4057664597205

      Table of Contents

      FOREWORD.

      HOME INDUSTRIES AND DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

      CHAPTER I.

      RUG WEAVING.

      CHAPTER II.

      THE PATTERN.

      CHAPTER III.

      DYEING.

      CHAPTER IV.

      INGRAIN CARPET RUGS.

      CHAPTER V.

      WOVEN RAG PORTIERES.

      CHAPTER VI.

      WOOLEN RUGS.

      CHAPTER VII.

      COTTON RUGS.

      CHAPTER VIII.

      LINSEY WOOLSEY.

      NEIGHBOURHOOD INDUSTRIES

      AFTER-WORD

      FOREWORD.

      Table of Contents

      HOME INDUSTRIES AND DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

      Table of Contents

      The

      subject of Home Industries is beginning to attract the attention of those who are interested in political economy and the general welfare of the country, and thoughtful people are asking themselves why, in all the length and breadth of America, there are no well-established and prosperous domestic manufactures.

      We have no articles of use or luxury made in homes which are objects of commercial interchange or sources of family profit. To this general statement there are but few exceptions, and curiously enough these are, for the most part, in the work of our native Indians.

      A stranger in America, wishing—after the manner of travelers—to carry back something characteristic of the country, generally buys what we call Indian curiosities—moccasins, baskets, feather-work, and the one admirable and well-established product of Indian manufacture, the Navajo blanket. But these hardly represent the mass of our people.

      We may add to the list of Indian industries, lace making, which is being successfully taught at some of the reservations, but as it is not as yet even a self-supporting industry, the above-named curiosities and the Navajo blanket stand alone as characteristic hand-work produced by native races; while from our own, or that of the co-existent Afro-American, we have nothing to show in the way of true domestic manufactures.

      When we contrast this want of production with the immense home product of Europe, Asia, parts of Africa, and South America—and even certain islands of the Southern Seas—we cannot help feeling a sort of dismay at the contrast; and it is only by a careful study of the conditions which have made the difference that we become reassured. It is, in fact, our very prosperity, the exceptionally favourable circumstances which are a part of farming life in this country, which has hitherto diverted efforts into other channels.

      These conditions did not exist during the early days of America, and we know that while there was little commercial exchange of home commodities, many of the arts which are used to such profitable purpose abroad existed in this country and served greatly to modify home expenses and increase home comforts. To account for the cessation of these household industries, it is only necessary to notice the drift of certain periods in the short history of America’s settlement and development.

      We shall see that the decline of domestic manufactures in New England and the Middle States was coincident with two rapidly increasing movements, one of which was the opening and settlement of the great West, and the other the establishment of cotton and woolen mills throughout the country.

      In short, the abundant acreage of Western lands, fertile beyond the dreams of New England or Old World tillers, threw the entire business of production or family support upon the man. The profit of his easily acquired farm land was so great and certain that it became almost a reproach to him to have his womenkind busy themselves with other than necessary household duties.

      The cotton and woolen mills stood ready to supply the needed material for clothing, and it was positive economy to push the spinning-wheel out of sight under the garret eaves and chop up the bulky loom for firewood. The wife and daughters might reputably cook and clean for the men whose business it was to cover the black acres with golden wheat, but spinning and weaving were decidedly unfashionable occupations. Even the emigrants from countries where the spinning and weaving habit was an inheritance as well as a necessity, were governed by the custom of the country, and devoted the entire energy of the family to the raising of crops.

      It is, in fact, owing to fortunate circumstances that, if we except the mountain regions of the South, there are no longer farmhouse or domestic manufactures in America.

      This, as I have said, only goes to prove the hitherto unexampled prosperity of the country. In fact, the absence of these very industries means that there are greater sources of profit within the reach of farming households.

      This being so, it is natural to ask, why the re-establishment of farmhouse manufactures, or the encouragement and development of them, is a desirable movement.

      There are exceedingly good individual and personal reasons; and there are also commercial and national ones, which should not be ignored.

      All farmers are not successful. There are many poor as well as rich ones; and 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.

      A poor farmer is often obliged to pay out for labour, fencing, stock, insurance and taxes every dollar gained by the sale of his crops, and if by good luck or good management there should be a small excess, he is apt to hoard it against unlooked-for emergencies. This, at first enforced economy, grows to be the habit of his life, so that even if he becomes well-to-do, or even rich, he distrusts exceedingly the wisdom of any expenditure save his own.

      A mechanic, or a man in any small line of business, must trust his wife with the disbursement of a certain part of the family income. It passes through her hands in the way of housekeeping, and the management of it exercises and develops her faculties; but the wife of the farmer has no such interest. The farm is expected to supply the family living, and this blessed fact becomes almost a

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