The craft of hand-made rugs . Border of grape leaf units. grape leaf has been placed between the guidelines. The successive prints of the stenciledunit make a section of border. This section of border printed on the Japa-nese paper is to be made into another must be treated in the same way as the orig-inal print. That is, by waxing it with paraffin,ironing it and cutting it. Only the portionswhich are printed in the ochre are to be cut uncolored portions which are the ribs willbe left as ties as before. If a stencil seems too 210 THE CRAFT OF HAND-MADE RUGS fragile, get a pi
The craft of hand-made rugs . Border of grape leaf units. grape leaf has been placed between the guidelines. The successive prints of the stenciledunit make a section of border. This section of border printed on the Japa-nese paper is to be made into another must be treated in the same way as the orig-inal print. That is, by waxing it with paraffin,ironing it and cutting it. Only the portionswhich are printed in the ochre are to be cut uncolored portions which are the ribs willbe left as ties as before. If a stencil seems too 210 THE CRAFT OF HAND-MADE RUGS fragile, get a piece of imbarred mosquito net-ting and brush it over the back of the .stencilwith shellac; lay the mosquito netting on will stick fast to it and should later re-ceive another coat of shellac. When dry thenet holds the fragile parts of the stencil to-gether, and makes an attractive backgroundeffect when the small squares of the meshes are. Allover arrangement of units. printed. The allover arrangement and the spotarrangements should be treated in the sameway. For allover patterns draw the guide orconstruction lines on the Japanese paper ineither square or diagonal arrangements. Besure to measure the stencil carefully in order tohave room for the placement. There are a few oil colors which will standwashing if carefully handled. Prussian blue, STENCIL MAKING 211 burnt sienna, and yellow ochre are the mostserviceable. Blue and white combinations canbe made on cotton cloth or linen. Burnt siennacan be used in combination with natural coloredburlap or on Russian crash. Unbleached cot-ton cloth dyed by the processes recommendedin other chapters, can be successfully com-bined with these oil colors. Interesting andunique effects can be obtained by using back-grounds shaded by the process mentioned in thechapter on the knitted rug. THE TUFTED COUNTERPANE Chapteb XIITHE TUFTED COUNTERPANE THE tufted counterpane of to-day likemos
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