Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1910 — EASILY MADE TEAPOT MAT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EASILY MADE TEAPOT MAT

Cardboard and Berlin Wood Used in Making Useful Article to Protect Table. There is, only one thing that is essential in making a mat to place under a hot water jug or teapot, and that is that it should be of sufficient thickness to keep the heat from injuring the surface of the table. We give herewith a sketch a mat that will perfectly well answer this purpose and which can be made very easily with cardboard and Berlin wool. A circular piece of stout cardboard

is cut in the size required, and a circular hole about the size of a penny is cut in the center. The cardboard is then bound over and over with wool, passing it through the hole in the center and round the edge until the cardboard is entirely hidden. A mat can be made with wool of one color, or different colored wools may be used, and in that case it is not difficult Jto work a regular pattern in strips running to the center. When this has been completed, the hole In the center may be filled with a small ribbon rosette, fastened in its place with & few stitches, and the edge of the mat may be trimmed with a ruche of narrow ribbon. This has not been shown in the illustration, in order that the mat may be clearly seen. Tinsel thread mixed with the wool in strips give a very pretty effect.

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