dye for this purpose, they come in such pretty, bright colors. The
rags, when sewed together with some I have in the attic, we'll have
woven into a useful carpet for the home you are planning.'

"Oh! Aunt Sarah," exclaimed Mary, "do you mean a carpet like the one
in the spare bedroom?"

"Yes, my dear, exactly like that, if you wish."

"Indeed I do, and I think one like that quite good enough to have in a
dining-room. I think it so pretty. It does not look at all like a
common rag carpet."

"No, my dear, it is nothing very uncommon. It is all in the way it is
woven. Instead of having two gay rainbow stripes about three inches
wide running through the length of the carpet, I had it woven with the
ground work white and brown chain to form checks. Then about an inch
apart were placed two threads of two shades of red woolen warp,
alternating with two threads of two shades of green, across the whole
width, running the length of the carpet. It has been greatly admired,
as it is rather different from that usually woven. All the rag carpets
I found in the house when we moved here, made by John's mother,
possessed very wide stripes of rainbow colors, composed of shaded
reds, yellows, blues and greens. You can imagine how very gorgeous
they were, and so very heavy. Many of the country weavers use linen
chain or warp instead of cotton, and always use wool warp for the
stripes."

"Aunt Sarah, I want something so very much for the Colonial bedroom I
should like to have when I have a home of my very own."