MAKING OF RUGS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 11

MAKING OF RUGS

SUITABLE MALE ' EMPLOYMENT. FITTINGS FOR THE CAR. Women have long made rugs, although this seems a suitable male employment—partly because rug-making is fairly heavy work and partly because the materials for rug-making work out expensively, and men usually mind this less than women, states an English writer. Big rugs are something of an undertaking, and unless they are made in pieces and then joined together—not too easy a thing to do and not often successful —they have to be done on the spot and cannot be taken about with one as though they were needlework. Men often have more time—when they have time at all—to devote to rug-making, and some of them have done charming designs for different rooms.

At the moment all heads of families who are not obliged to earn incomes arc engaged in the useful avocation of making rugs for the car. This is a particularly useful thing to do, because exact taste can be followed with regard to the colour and because the rugs can be made more sensibly than is often the case with those not specially designed for the purpose. The rugs, moreover, are small, and so are easy to handle. »The canvas must be measured, with a little allowance for the size wanted for the back, and for the front it is much better to make two small rugs instead of one which covers the hump and invariably gets rumpled there. The two small rugs keep beautifully in place, and they are easy to fit well. Any man who wants a job can try making these car rugs, either for the home or as a present for friends.