Rug manufacture

A looped pile carpet, similar to the old Brussels -weave, was developed to simulate hooked rugs. The close-set heavy yarn loops make an interesting texture.

Most of the designs and colors have been excellent.

They have ranged from the simplest log J .cabin blocks to the most elaborate bouquets of flowers in " large repeats. The better quality fabrics of this type are very durable.

Other hooked designs in practically every weave and at every price were made in enormous quantities, for those were the pat-|» terns women wanted in the thirties.

Hooked rug designs are less plentiful in the 1940's, but there : are some available. The rugs made in China are so inexpensive ' that they have largely replaced the machine-made hooked rugs in looped pile.