The colonial kitchen would be incomplete without a bright,
Home-like Rag Rug
to place over the bare board floor, and it will be fun for you to weave it. Take a piece of smooth brown wrapping-paper the size you want your mat, fold it crosswise through the centre and cut across the fold ([Fig. 259]), making a fringe of double pieces which we will call the warp. Unfold the paper and weave various colored tissue-strips in and out through the brown foundations ([Fig. 260]), until the paper warp is all filled in with pretty, bright colors. You can weave the rug "hit or miss" or in stripes wide or narrow as you choose, only make the rugs as pretty as possible.
Fig. [260].—Weave the rug in this way.
Now we must manufacture a fine
Old Colonial Clock
| Fig. [261].—Colonial clock with movable weights. | Fig. [262].—The clock is cut in one piece. |
Fig. [263].—Draw the circle.