Early US rugs
Our pioneer women seem never to have had a moment when they weren't busy.
Through the long winter evenings they stitched patiently on their little mats by the poor light of homemade candles and the flickering fire.
They never wasted anything, and made much out of little.
If they needed a special color to make the design they had concocted quite perfect, they painstakingly brewed a pot of dye and colored their scraps of cloth.
For dyes they used fruits, flowers, vegetables, roots, barks and a few "boughten" materials such as cochineal from Mexico, and indigo.
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