The craft of hand-made rugs . idth counterpane, two and three-quarters yards of muslin is needed, two and one-half yards wide. The muslin may be eitherbleached or unbleached. If the bleached isused the linen finished muslin is the most satis-factory. Take pure white knitting cotton. DextersNo. 6 for making the tufts. The pattern in theillustration requires two dozen balls. Use darning needle. Besides these materials geta bottle of liquid bluing, two yards of heavystencil paper, a small quantity of laundrystarch, a small ^tiff paint brush and a harnesspunch. MARKING THE PATTERN In Colonial
The craft of hand-made rugs . idth counterpane, two and three-quarters yards of muslin is needed, two and one-half yards wide. The muslin may be eitherbleached or unbleached. If the bleached isused the linen finished muslin is the most satis-factory. Take pure white knitting cotton. DextersNo. 6 for making the tufts. The pattern in theillustration requires two dozen balls. Use darning needle. Besides these materials geta bottle of liquid bluing, two yards of heavystencil paper, a small quantity of laundrystarch, a small ^tiff paint brush and a harnesspunch. MARKING THE PATTERN In Colonial days the method used for mark-ing straight lines on the tufted counterpaneswas known as snapping a .string. Two peo-ple did the marking with a piece of string, wetwith colored starch or rubbed with coloredchalk. Each held an end in position over themuslin just above where the line was to the string very taut and letting goof it, simultaneously, snapped it against themuslin, marking a line of any desired TUFTED COUNTERPANE MADE OFBLEACHED MUSLIN WITH PUREWHITE TUFTS UN- THE TUFTED COUNTERPANE 217 For circles of different sizes, lines weredrawn around the edges of plates, saucers andgoblets. By these sinaple means a geometricstyle of pattern was produced, which could becarried out appropriately through the mediumof the tufts, these being placed at stated in-tervals along the lines. Sometimes more elaborate figures like theold-fashioned palm leaf were used. These werecut out of thick cardboard and the outlinedrawn around them on the muslin with coloredchalk. But while these methods are interesting thestencil is a more up-to-date and practical meansof marking counterpanes. A section of the de-sign, usually one-fourth, is drawn on thestencil paper, and holes placed at stated in-tervals, either one inch or one-half inch apartare punched out with the harness the stenciling is finished the dotted pat-tern appears on the muslin. The dots indicatethe po
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