vi AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
December, 1911 
Stained with Cabol's Shingle Stains 
Aymar Embury If. Architect, Englewood, N. J. 
50° cheaper than Paint 
50°> cheaper to apply 
100° handsomer than Paint 
This ts only a part of what you gain by using 
Cabot’s ShingleStains 
They are made of creosote, and thoroughly preserve the 
wood, Your own men can put them on, or you can do it 
yourself, if you are back where there are no painters. They 
give soft, transparent coloring effects, that harmonize per- 
fectly with nature. ey are used on all exterior woodwork, 
shingles, siding, clapboards, or boarding, The original 
Creosote, genuine wood-preserving Stains. 
You can get Cabol’s Stains all over the country. Send 
for free samples on wood and name of nearest agent 
SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Manfg. Chemists 
131 Milk Street 
Boston, Mass. 
Mammy PEIREAD pe oer cwool 
PORT me and or camel's hair, 
TH READ | THRUM in any widthup to 
ase | RUGS 16 FEET 
TH RU M and in any length, color or combin- 
RUGS | ation of colors. 65 regular shades 
—any other shading made to match. 
Send for color card and 
name of nearest dealer. 
Thread & Thrum Work Shop 
Auburn, N. Y. 
“*vYou choose 
the colors, we'll 
make the rug."* 
The Schilling Press 
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Van Dorn 
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& STABLE WORK 
OIST HANGERS 
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Ventilate your rooms, yet have your 
windows securely fastened with 
The Ives Window 
Ventilating Lock 
Mace end Log 
assuring you of fresh air and pro- 
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and strong, inexpensive and easily 
applied. Ask your dealer for them 
88-page Catalogue Hardware Specialties, Free. 
THE H. B. IVES CO. 
Soe Manuracturers ..1. NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
They must know the various kinds of rugs, 
that they may know the knots appropriate 
and be able to use them with intelligence 
and fitness. A rare deftness of handling is 
required, as the stitches or knots are set very 
closely together—in the original loom they 
were beaten into place. In the tightly en- 
closed space which is left when the spoiled 
part of the rug is removed, it seems won- 
derful that this can be filled in at all, and 
especially in the finer rugs, where there are 
sometimes as many as several hundred knots 
within a square inch. For this purpose the 
yarn is threaded through a needle, as is 
originally done in making the rug in the 
Eastern way upon the simple hand loom 
used. By means of pushing the needle 
through, without other aids, the stitch is ac- 
complished, even when they come to the 
last one, for which there seems too little 
room to make it possible. 
The men sit picturesquely and comfort- 
ably among the rugs and handle them and 
speak of them with a familiar and affection- 
ate knowledge. Wools of every delightful 
color imaginable hang up within convenient 
reach, and these, it is claimed, are brought 
over from the Orient ; dyed there with vege- 
table dyes, in the old accepted manner. 
Whether altogether and always so, the mat- 
ter of the color of the wools is a very im- 
portant one if the mending is to be of 
permanent value, and there must be great 
care taken, of necessity, to secure fine col- 
ors which will not fade out otherwise than 
as reckoned upon, and so spoil the work, 
however skillfully the rest of it may have 
been done. In the wools which hang in 
sight we preceive varieties of tones which 
may be the equivalents of those to be seen in 
the rugs which are waiting to be mended or 
are undergoing the process. 
Here is one which has lain in a wrinkle 
until this became a habit and until a crease 
was made, so that the wools along that line 
are completely worn off down to the warp. 
The stitches or knots missing must each be 
patiently supplied, each in its own place, 
and with its own color tint, until the whole 
is once more covered and appears as good 
as new, the parts of the pattern matching 
perfectly. Another rug which lies near has 
heen the victim of an accident and has a 
large ink spot upon it. They explain to you 
that from the back each stitch is picked out, 
one at a time. As you are on the point of 
wondering how they shall even keep the 
pattern intact, whether they can do it in 
their mind alone, whether they make a 
sketch of the forms and select the colors in 
advance, whether they make a water-color 
sketch (which you cannot believe they do, 
being too clever to waste time thus), they 
inform you that in order to save the form 
of the pattern they pull out only one knot 
at a time, replacing these as they go along. 
This comes as a veritable pleasure—this 
simple solution. First all the outline color 
is removed, probably black. When each of 
these minute knots has been restored and 
the outline is thus secured, one of the colors 
used is treated in the same way until all of 
this color is replaced; and so on with all of 
the tones, matching each carefully in turn. 
By this means the pattern is kept in an easy 
and sure way, and each tint and shade is 
given due consideration, so that, when com- 
plete, the design appears complete and ap- 
parently as perfect as when originally made. 
Another rug—rather small. but a hand- 
some one, having a fine luminous sheen— 
has been eaten by moths; a bit here, a few 
shreds there, until the whole would seem 
to ordinary view quite hopeless. Each tiny 
spot, however, has been cared for, carefully 
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ORIENTAL RUGS 
Rugs of distinction in un- 
usual sizes to meet decor- 
ative needs. 
Artistic rugs for holiday 
gifts—moderate cost. 
KENT-COSTIK YAN 
INCORPORATED 
8 West 38th Street 
New York City 
Quaint Lavender Bags 
Lavender bags, three 
choice little bags, filled with 
il\| this year’s imported laven- 
| der. Three Gifts in 
Sent, postpaid, 50 
cents. 
Pohlson’s Gift Shop 
Pawtucket, R. I. 
A Beautiful Illustrated Book- 
let, ‘“‘ WHERE SUN DIALS 
ARE MADE,” sent upon re- 
ti é ; 
Any Latitude quest. Estimates furnished. 
E. B. MEYROWITZ, 106 East 23d St., New York 
Branches: New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, London, Paris 
FRANCIS HOWARD 
5 W. 28th St.. N, Y.C. Entrances 
Benches. Pedestals, 
Fonts, Vases, Busts. 
GARDEN EXPERTS 
Send 15c. for Booklet 
use 
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For Cooking, Water Heating and 
Laundry Work also for Lighting 
“(It makes the house a home’’ 
Send stamp today for “‘Economy Way”’ 
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“Economy ” Gas is automatic, Sanitary and Not-Poisonous 
> ae SEAM 
ROOF 
TRONS 
CLINCH right through the 
standing seam of metal 
roofs. No rails are needed 
unless desired. We makea 
similar one for slate roofs. 
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PHILADELPHIA 
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