Rugs

Rugs
HAMMERSMITH CARPETS, or RUGS
English-made tufted fabric composed of cotton warp and weft for ground, and woollen pile weft in 13/4-in. lengths, 25 tufts per inch of 5/8-in. pile. The warp is 16 ends as one, and three such compound threads are twisted together and woven 10 per inch. The weft is thick cotton yarn of four threads as one, five picks per inch. One pick is inserted after each row of tufts. As the pile yarn has four threads of 5 skein as one, there are 25 X 8 = 200 ends of pile yarn per square inch. The rugs are fringed at each end.

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