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out putting in a piece of wool. Pieces of woolen cloth may be used instead of the Smyrna wool. Tapestry Brussels, carpeting cut into strips of uniform width and then raveled out also furnish nice material for these rugs.

If a whole rug seems too great an undertaking, a centre of handsome carpeting (remnants of which can be procured at a low price in the city stores), edged with

Fig. 121.

a wide knit border, is very pretty. These rugs should be lined with old carpeting, gray linen, or hemp carpet.

QUILTS.

Fig. 121 is an extremely pretty quilt which has