When the warp is ready take a strip of blue and begin
To Weave.
Tack the end of the strip, which is now the warp, a little to the left and a trifle below the upper left-hand tack ([Fig. 487]) and, starting under the first strip of warp, weave it in and out several times; then draw the warp out its full length as you do a needle and thread after taking several stitches. Keep the warp flat and even when it is woven and push it up close to the tacks. Weave across in this way, always under one and over the next, and drawing out the end of the woof every little while. When you have reached the last strip of warp on the right, turn the woof over it and weave back again in the same manner ([Fig. 487]).
The woof for this rug is entirely of blue, and as you weave across the white warp you will find that it makes a blue and white checker-board centre.
Fig. 487.—Keep the warp perfectly straight.
When you have woven as much as you can between the two rows of tacks, take the tacks out,
Move the Woven Part Up