How to Make Rugs (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Wheeler, Candace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440063087 ISBN 13: 9781440063084

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

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Excerpt from How to Make Rugs

The subject of Home Industries is be ginning to attract the attention of those who are interested in political economy and the general welfare of the country, and thoughtful people are asking them selves 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 com mercial 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.

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FOREWORD. HOME INDUSTRIES AND DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. THE subject of Home Industries is be .. ginning to attract the attention of those vho are interested in political economy and the general vvelfare of the country, and thoughtful people are asking them .. selves vhy, in an the length and breadth of America, there arc no well-established and prosperous domestic manufactures. 'tV c have no articles of use or luxury made in h01nes 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 vork 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 ve call 4. Indian curiosi ties "--moccasins, baskets, fea ther- 3

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; FOREWORD: IIO~IE INDUSTRIES AND; DO!IESTIC MANUFACTURES; CI1AI'THR; 1 RUG VEAVING; II THE PATTER:-r 33; III DYEING - 45; IV INGRAIN CARPET RUGS 51; V WOVEN RUG PORTIERES - 67; VI ·WOOLEN RUGS, 79; VII COTfO:-r RUGS 99; VIII LIN~JL,Y, WOOLSEY 113; NEIGHBO·JlUI009 IHL'USr~HSS :; AFT£;~· V(IRJ), 125

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1440063087
• ISBN 13: 9781440063084
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158