Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — HOMEMADE LINOLEUM [ARTICLE]

HOMEMADE LINOLEUM

The following is an item of .help that may interest some one who is needing a covering for the kitchen floor —one that will wear well and be neat and attractive. Takes an old rag carpet, darn and patch all holes and stretch tightly on the floor. Then make * good, stiff paste, and with a brash fill the carpet as full of paste as it will take. up. Let dry, then apply a second coat, which glazes the carpet. Now give it two coats of paint and if preferred one can stripe or check it with some other color or by means of a stencil paint any kind of a design. This carpet is inexpensive, looks almost as well as linoleum and will wear as long.