Fig. 188
It must be remembered that two checks on the design-paper correspond with a row of ten holes on the cards, as each check may have any of five colours on it in the case of a 5-frame carpet pattern, and there must be a space for a hole in the card for any of these colours; therefore the designs or large squares on the design-paper would consist of two checks each. Suppose one of these checks—the first one—to be green, the first hole in the card would be cut for it; if the second check is also green, the sixth hole on the card would be cut; but if it is black, the eighth hole in the card would be cut, not the third hole, as it, being the second check, comes on the second half of the card. The first check stands against the first five rows of holes in the card, and the second check against the second five rows, each check on the design-paper representing five threads, five mails and five needles, or five spaces on the card; but only one hole is cut on the card for it, and that must suit the colour the check is painted.
Fig. 189
Wilton Carpets.—These carpets are made much in the same manner as Brussels, but the pile is cut, and they are of a better quality of wool with a longer pile, and altogether a superior article. As the pile is cut, the method of binding it into the ground is somewhat different from that adopted for Brussels, in order to secure a firmer binding. A section of the cloth through the weft is given in [Fig. 189], showing two pile loops cut and one uncut, and also the method of binding the pile warp threads Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, with the ground warp A and B, and the weft is shown in section, or end view.
Fig. 190