TABLE OR DRESSER MATS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 69, 14 December 1935, Page 23

TABLE OR DRESSER MATS

An excellent decorative feature for a bungalow or Hat furnished in what is termed “cottage fashion,” with plain matting ou the lloor, is a large, brightly coloured table or dresser mat made of plaited strips of coarse delaine or of line sponge cloth. Tito work, too, may be done by a child or by a bedridden invalid. Take three strips one inch wide and of different lengths, two being considerably longer than the third, tie the ends together, fasten them to a heavy object, and turning in the raw edges as the folds are made, plait a sufficient length to form a circle or oblong for the middle of the mat. Neatly sew on other strips ns required, but two of the colours should not he changed until the middle is finished. Place the circle or oblong in position, and herring-bone the plaits together on both sides. Continue the plaiting in different colours, repenting any two, four or five I lilies, but not using the first three colours again Throe colours must not be altered at the same place, and a -I rip in any throe tineli.'inged colours must not encircle the mat.