These cuttings are from miscellaneous magazines or newspapers.

RUG-MAKING - A HOBBY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Helen Burke's Homecraft and Fashion Pages
Sunday Pictorial (Sunday Mirror, 14 January 1934)

WHEN it comes to rugs, the adjective "home-made" expresses quality. Indeed, the vogue for hand-made rugs has grown to such an extent in the past few years that small rugs, such as anyone can make, are the most fashionable at the present time. High-class furnishing houses, well-known for their progressiveness and for the good taste of their wares, have set their seal of approval on hand-made rugs. We find in these establishments delightful rugs, specially designed by noted artists and often signed by them, which appear to advantage in modern interiors and with modern furniture.

Rug-making is the one handicraft which the uninitiated person - man, woman or even child - can accomplish easily, successfully, at home without a course of instruction and with the minimum of tools which, actually, is only one. Rug-making is a restful occupation. It does not strain the eyes as does much reading or, say, the making of fine embroidery. It is a fascinating job - so much so, in fact, that, far from being work, rug-making is to be strongly recommended as pleasant recreation. You have no idea how fascinating the making of a rug can be until you begin to make one. With the completion of each row and the gradual growth of the pattern, you find it difficult to set the rug aside to follow the more mundane jobs of life.

In the matter of under-foot comfort, there is nothing to compare with home-made rugs. These rugs, moreover, are essentially durable, lasting a life-time as they do. Further, the making of these hand-made rugs enables us to carry out harmonious colour schemes. When we make a rug, we make it to fit in with our existing furniture and furnishings. From the samples of coloured wools, we can select exactly those shades we require. With a plain carpet or other floor covering, parquet or plain wood floors, and rugs which pick up and emphasise the general colours of the room, we have taken the first hurdle and are well on the way towards achieving decorative harmony.

THREE SPECIAL DESIGNS

The two rugs shown on this page, either of which the merest novice can make easily, have been specially designed for readers of this newspaper. "Tiger" is a clever and unique design in fawn, yellow and black, representing an actual tiger skin. It measures 58in. by 30in., and would be ideal in a hall or living-room. For a bedroom or sitting-room there is "Midsummer Roses," the original of which is carried out with a floral pattern in gay colourings of red, blue, pink, etc., on a French grey background. This rug can be made in three different sizes, 70in. by 36in., 54in. by 27in., and 32in. by 14in. There is also a third rug, "Modern," in an attractive, somewhat geometric, design, originally with an oyster background, with n*gger [dark brown] and fawn corners and a stroke of yellow - but any other colours can, of course, be used. This rug is in three sizes, 72in. by 36in., 54in. by 27in and 32in. by 14in. There are many other beautiful rug styles available, including Persian, Turkish, floral, conventional and other modern designs.

Now, the one very great advantage about the particular rugs of which I write is this. After you have decided on the design and size of rug you wish to make and on the colour scheme you wish to carry out, all that you need do is send your order and remittance to the firm which I shall recommend. The prices by the way, are certainly most reasonable. You will then receive a very clearly stencilled canvas of the rug (the foundation of the rug itself), together with the correct amounts of the various coloured wools you require, all ready cut for working, the necessary latchet rug-making hook and complete instructions. I have also arranged that our readers will receive a special cardboard box, divided into "pigeon-holes," for the convenient storage of the different coloured wools while working. I need not stress the enormous advantage of obtaining the wool ready cut into correct lengths for working, nor need I stress that the rug canvases are so distinctly marked that it is impossible for anyone to make mistakes - even with the most intricate designs.

WRITE FOR DESIGNS, ETC.
But I would like to emphasise what seems to me to be a most important point: It frequently happens, when rug-making, a very small quantity of a particular wool is required, and very often the minimum amount of that wool which one can purchase is greatly in excess of what one needs. Under the system of which I write on receives the required quantity of each wool, no more, no less, and one knows at the outset the exact cost of the rug. If, as might happen, one finds towards the completion of a rug that one requires any extra pieces of wool, the manufacturer will supply them free of charge.

For the benefit of the many readers who will, I am sure, be interested in this extremely interesting, profitable work, I have arranged to send full particulars regarding rug-making. These include a most interesting selection of rug designs in full colours, samples of the various kinds of wool in a full colour range, full instructions for the making of the rugs themselves, and, of course, particulars of the prices of the various sizes.

As it will be impossible to enclose in the ordinary envelope what is really quite a bulky packet, I shall ask you, this week, to send me a penny stamp, together with your $name and address in block letters. I shall then send you the various sample wools, etc.. which I have described, together with particulars regarding the three special rugs described here to-day. Write, please, to Helen Burk, c/o the Sunday Pictorial, Geraldine House, Ferrer-lane, London, E.C.4.
(Photographs by courtesy of Twilight Readicut Wools.)

The following charts and cuttings were tucked inside rug catalogues I bought online.

These pages are from a 1936 craft magazine; though the cuttings related to the Carnell rugmaking tool (a rug punch) they show the popularity of home rugmaking.