The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1898, Page 27

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 81, 1898 YORK, s its hats n EW literally, iter than flaring worn round bac! e, To make one of these hats you get a d cover it with mull. f chiffon around the frame so 1l over the halr, and faster white ribbon strir ation needed band of the - forwagd white straw and are faced with vith a double chif- be trimmed . with and es -of A b e this co! ¢ plun not worn for warmt and 1shac but the orative a s a flat hat, of c is a much mor e worn o sum- icals at nd. for these which this r pretty e toques come-in a rough e v with such ation that ff plumes sew- str Som of gr is the only d is a handful of = 1 which gives it a sun- | it d other pub-- \ S\ \\‘\) W 0 0 AN UP-TO-DATE POKE BONNET. | to pay Summier materials most a ity hat, when for that sum handy with her fingers c a for a summer hat. 0 varied and summe: dozen hats. In making her own hats the home mil- liner should be careful to select something ch she can trim. It is a very good plan for the observant woman to look at the shapes that are much worn and to se- lect one which she admires. Then com the question of trimming. Too often the home milliner upon odds and ends in the house. The are wrinkled, faded and soiled, and cut into inconvenient lengths. Not even a milliner can make anything out of them. kor home millinerv purchase new ribbons, new flowers, new feathers and new ln- ings. Do not use anything that is c.d if you want a good effect. The professional milliner may be able to work with odds and ends, but the amateur requires the best of goods, Put on your trimming with depe ds lavish hand and trust to pins as well us Mil- thread for fastening your trimming. liners often employ pins, as wiil by ripping a hat apart, and the h liner can do the same. One great error in home millinery ce- curs. when there i an effort to smooth the trimming down. If you will notice the store hat you will see that its ioops stand smartly erect, that its feathers are pointed In an aggressive w that its vel- vet is-put on in great rolls, without any attempt to flatten the rimming dowa. The home milliner, on the other hand. rolls the velvet flat, lays the feathers down upon the hat,’and by various flat touches gives it the amateur look so easily detected. ‘Ribbon stiffening costs little. Wire comes in all colors for sewing along the edges of ribbon. Rolls of velvet can nasi be made large without using a great deal of material. little crinoline should be used under (] If chiffon is usged, the fou ull. The ¢hiffon is twisted over the mull and is stiffened by it. 4 Such delightful hood hats are made for nice day and evening occasions. These are veritable red riding hoods and are so rat and finished with v hese toques trimmed and many without trimmin ire very them “are any ensily worn sameé material. kind except a knot of velling and a twist of the | | | | THE THREE LATEST THINGS OUT, THE FRENCH SAILOR, THE PINK VEIL AND THE SWORD HANDLED UMBRELLA i | the cloak room a very natty black tur- | in_the same way. | day an | and yet when she did not use it she could | combined with strong alkalles, | becoming to the face that women who | study their good looks have several of | | e red riding hood hat is one that is ¢ of any thin material lined witn a ht color. A ruffle or ruching Is jut | e. and there I8 a little cape | . The is capable ot a varfety of treatment and somz ¢f s are truly surprising. pen air performance of *“As You it,” at & summer resort recently, | a very pretty woman gowned in gray sat | under,a green tree, wearing o hood of | leat green satin, lined with bright cerise silk. There was a double frill around the edge of the hood of gray chiffon. The three colors harmonized delicately and beautifully and gave a very nice touch | to the costume. Its very decorative in- | side lining makes a pretty contrast of colo! Hats of this kind are also made out of mull and lawn of all colors. They are lined with taffeta and are bordered with a little mull ruffle or a ruffle of silk. The hood is tied under the chin with a very bright ribbon. he woman who {s fitting herself out with summer hats will do well to select odd ones. That is, hats that are a little out of the ordinary without being too conspicuous. In summer, the odd gat 18 preferable to the conventional one. Two or three poke hats, a mull toque and two straws will carry one fairly well during the summer season. The togques can be used for traveling, the poke hat for croquet and other lawn games and the hats for day and evening. Of course for bieycling and golf there must be another style of hat, but for these there s nothing equal to the sail- or, which §s becoming to all ages and con- ditjons of women. he sallor hat this year Bands of ribbon with fringes, velling with bunches of sailor hats. A year ago a fashionable woman cre- ated a sensation in soclety at an after- noon luncheon by announcing that al- though she had fifteen hats that sum- mer, not one of them contained an {nch of silk, satin, velvet or straw. They were entirely of paper. This was ques- tioned until she had a mald produce from is trimmed. uills, sashes with owers, silk with feathers, all are worn on ban, trimmed apparently with bands of silk. On investigation it was found that the turban was covered with dull black silk paper, and banded with the same ma- terial. On a wager she produced all her hats and proved that they were trimmed In a certain very large city there is to- Immense millinery emporium filled from entrance to exit with trimmed hats made enurelfr out of paper. French & used. The paper comes striped in all colors, flnwe?eg, crinkled and plain. It| is as tough as silk and much more dur- able than mull or chiffon. You can sprin- kle it and you can let the sun shine upon it, but it will remain true to color, which is a great deal more than can be said of many summer materials. These hats are, unfortunately, very ex- pensive, but the woman who is deter- mined to do her own millinery can get a few yards of silk tissue paper, crinkled and plain, and experiment with it. Let her make silk tissue roses and trim her hat with them. On actual trial she will find that they wear extremely well. She can face her hat with the tough Japanese variety of paper and can otherwise dec- orate it just about as she pleases. Of course, with the use of paper the cost of the hat is extremely small, and she can have as many as she desires without | spending more than a few dollars. In purchasing a>paper hat, however, any woman will be compelled to pay a large sum. These are quite expensive. They are placing o much work upon the paper flowers and the trimmings that it becomes necessary to charge well for them. Besides, they are so beautiful that they command a high price and readily obtain it. The advantages of tlssue paper are many, the principal one of which fx the color, which s absolutely steadfast. It Is warranted not to lose its brilliancy. In using tissue paper one can combine silk and velevt with it without notice, Try this material once, for a change, and see if you are not well pleased with it. Colors that do not fade are cerise, pur- sh blue and saftron. ish Blug wIT 2 HELES WARD. LATEST GoMBINATION. OTWITHSTANDING the threat- ened boycott of everything Pari- slan in the way of millinery, dress- making and the little odds | ends of feminine attire which go so far | toward making an entirely complete and fashionable woman, Paris has sent us an ultimatum, so far as the ever-useful seflor hat {s concerned, which our glrls, ever wide awake to that which will en- hance their beauty, have received with distinguished constderation, To be up to date the girl of the period must not wear the usual plain, severe, coarse or fine straw sailor, so closely copying that of her brothers or husband, but must add a little finishing touch of femininity to it, which is certainly very charming and extremely becoming to| nearly every style of face. It is an ac-| knowledged fact that nearly every wom- an looks well In a sailor, and if the plain | ribbon banded straw is so fetching how | much more attractive will be the latest style sent to us by our French sisters? The new salior is more stylish and up to date when made of a fine French chip straw. The crown is a lttle highep than the ordinary mannish hat of coarse, rough straw, and the brim a little broad- er in front than at the back. Bouillon- nes of chiffon or silk surround the crown, either of white, velled with figured black lace, or all of white, with chenllle dotted net covering the soft, fluffy chiffon or silk roll. Then there are large double Mercury wings spread across the front of the hat, finished with a “‘“‘choux,” as it is called, | of soft chiffon or silk. This trimming may be varied to suit the face the hat is i{ntended to set off by being placed at the side. But the full white Mercury wings are an indispensable part of a chic sallor for this season. The back of the hat is filled in with soft choux of white chiffon or roses, which is a matter of taste; but to be al- together in the style the back is better left untrimmed. Anothér favorite method ot transforming the mannish sallor into a womanly one is to trim it with one of the long, soft Roman scarfs so fashion- able at present and to form full knots of the soft Itallan silk at the side, from which in coquettish tills will protrude the inevitable white Mercury wings. These wings must be on the hat or the style is one. slt is not alone sufficient to have your satlor hat, but the girl who adopts this pretty mode must also adopt the new white and pink round veils which go with it. These vells are but one of the many revivals of which inis sprh’\f and sum- mer have been so prolific. Nearly every #irl can go through her mother's, nay, perhaps her grandmother's, box of laces and find the fac-simile of the newest '8 vell. Straight across the top, it is finished with a beading through which elastic in | narrow ribbon is run, by which it can be athered around the crown of the hat. Its gol!flm is circular shaped, so that when it is in it falls below the chin in front and | slopes up even with the hat brim in the | back., 1t has a handsomelv designed bor- der, sometimes in biack aPpl|que on the | white net, but thie latter is rather outre | and too pronouriced for the ultra refined woman. \ A still more startling nnvelt);l. which s designed for wear with the sallors trimmed with Roman gcarfs, {8 the veil of pink tulle with large, medium sized and small white chenille dots. This pink vell is certainly afrent beauty enhancer, ,t'urxt one which 1 doubt will have a long o, HATS OF TAE SUMMER | tartan bow and black feathers. ; : must have a touch of the “milingtary” in her make un. and this has been furnished In the new umbrella handles. As all Americans are war crazy, the fashions, of course, must follow the trend of the public mind. With this idea in view the fad of the hour is a sun umbrella with a ilded sword handle. It matters little to he swell girl that these umbrellas are hard to carry, and with the present style of full skirts, which must be held up with both hands, almost an impossibilitv to hold open, still, all tnis must be put to one side, and a sword handle she must have to her sunshade. These sword handles are not confined to the plain silk sun umbrella, but extend to the thousand and one pretty conceits of the hour, which are most elaborate pro- ductions of tucks, hemstitching, ruch- ings, plaitings and insertions of lace, Swiss muslin, mulle, nongee, foulard and e{ve{{y conceivable material on the market o-day. Barts ror TRAVELING. Parls Letter to Sunday Call. Here are descriptions of hats seen at certain millinery houses: At Rue de la Paix I have seen the fol- lowing: 1. A boating hat of navy biue Manila | straw, with brim of the same, mixed with white straw; tartan bow and elaborate strass buckle. 2. Boating hat of red Manila straw, with white and red straw_ border, trimmed with pink spotted taXetas and fancy white spotted feathers. 3. Miller’s hat of soft red felt, trimmed with striped blue and white ribbon, drab and white fancy feathers and dand of straw around the edge on the under side of the brim. 5. Miller's hat of soft red felt, with band of straw on the under side of the brim, This hat is trimmed with red satin and white feathers. Seen at the Maison Nouvelle: 4. Boating hat of red Italian straw, with 6. White straw hat, trimmed with white feathers and black velvet. 8. Three-cornered hat of beige straw, | trimmed with snuff-colored taffetas and a | mixture of light and dark feathers. e — .o Seen in Rue Dannou: | . White straw hat, trimmed with black and orange velvet, fancy feathers, spanglcd. 9. Boating hat of white Panama straw, trimmed with seal-colored velvet spotted with _white and fancy feathers. 11. Boating hat of white Manila straw, trimmed with blie and white spotted foulard and white feathers. 12. Boating hat of white plaited straw, trimmed with white satin spotted with black and white feathers. Pt EReR e s A, One can speak by telephone from Berlin with anygnrl of Germany for three min- utes for % cents; for a conversation with any place outside of Germany the fees Now, to be complete in all the glory of tissue, Japanese tissue and silk paper are oXoJoXcRojofoJoJoxooyoJoRoXoRoYoXooXo¥oRofoXoRoYoRoXCROROXCROROROX CROROROROROROXCROXOROROJOROROJOROXORO) % SOAP FOR THE COMPLEXION. % : oXoXoXoRojolooloXoJoXoKoXoYooJoXoJofoXoooJoXoJoYoXoRoJoJoRoRoKoRoJOXOROROROXOXOJ OXOJOROROROROROROXOKO] This department is for the benefit of all beauty seekers, and correspondence is cordially tions will be answered in these columns. [OXOXOKO] her summer paraphernalia, the '08 girl Sign any name that you choose, Mme. Hygeia, The Sunday Call, San Francisco. HE question as to whether or not goap should be used upon the face can bring up more opinions than can the discussion as to whether Schley or Sampson deserves the credit of \the latest achievement of the Amerfean navy. Some one wrote me last week and said that when she used soap on her face the skin felt stretched and uncomfortable, not make herself belleve that her face was really clean. One cannot make a cast-iron rule for all womankind and say, “Thou shalt not use soap.” What Is good for one complexion is not good for an- other. If you find that soap does not agree with your skin shun it as you would a poison; if it does agree with it then give the face a gentle scrubbing every night, being. careful to rinse away every particle of the soap. Be sure that your soap is of the very best kind. A large number of toilet soaps are made of rancid or half-putrid fat, ‘which cause inestimable damage to the skin by dissolving a minute portion of the cuticle, as well as much of the secretions that fmpart to it its softness and suppleness. Soaps contalning a preponderance of ofly matter, which most of the milder toi- let soaps -now do, mechanically soften the skin and promote its smoothness. The former posses=es greater cleansing power than the latter. but its frequent use Is injucious, rendering the skin rough, harsh, dispomed to crack and eufly\at- fected by exposure to wind and cold. Do not use a colored soap. Many of the highly scented and colored toilet soaps contain a considerable amount of lime. chalk or gypsum and owe their attractive tints to noxious mineral matters. I hate to recommend anything Spanish, but the real imported castile soap which is made of olive ofl and soda is all right. However, the problem is best solved by manufacturing your own tollet soaps, and this s not difficult to do. Here is the formula for a soap which is particularly nice for the hands on account of the olls which it contains. It 1s called: JUNIATA TOILET SOAP. To one good-sized bar of castile soap add sufficlent water &o dls- solve it thoroughly. Stir in one tablespoonful of bicarbonate of soda. Let boil. Remove from fire and stir in one tablespoonful of each of the following ofls (mixed): Cocoanut, sweet almond and olive. Add one tablespoonful of mixture of equal parts of spirits of eam- phor, nitre, and ammonia and stir slightly. Put In molds and let stand for some time before using. It a scented soap is preferreéd, here is one with a fragrance as of wood violets straight from the meadows: White castile soap, 8 ounces, Honey, 1 ounce. Spermaceti, 1 ounee. Oil’ of sweet almonds, 1% ounces. White wax, 1 ounce. PBssence of violets, 3¢ ounce. Shave the cas..ie soap very fine. Put the honey .in a double boiler and when hot add the soap. In another double ‘borler put the ofl of almonds and the spermaceti and the wax, which have been grated fine. When the soap is entirely 1;‘1’;0« in a range between 50 cents (Prague) and $1 (Budapest). . invited. Ques- and address all communications to melted pour the ofls and the soap to- gether. Sometimes it may be necessary to add a little hot water to the honey| and soap, but be very sparing of it, lest | ou weaken your soap, so that it will not arden. Two tablespoonfuls, at most, 1is quite enough. After the oils and the soa] have been in the hot water bath, whic! should be kept bolling hriskly, for ten or fifteen minutes, remove from the fire, add the essence of violets, stir and then pdur into tegcups, if you do not happen to have any molds handy. Soap, like wine, improves with age, so the longer this is kept before using the better {t will be. This {s a bit more troublesome to make than the first recipe given, but, if direc- tlons are carefully followed, should come out all right. > A liquid soap, which’is much easfer to compound than either of the other two, which is particularly good for doing away with blackheads and also makes a de- lighttul shampoo, is made after the fol- lowing fashion: Cut_In very small shavings one-half und of pure imported ecastile soap. orcelain vessel with two quarts of bol ing' lwst;r.u“bet it s'(mxg‘:r until every particle o e soap is - solved. Wn cold it should be of the consistency of rather thin cream, and if thicker add more warm water. Stir in pint of alcohol apd. then let stand several days in a warm room. All the alkall and impurities whI settle to the bottom and the liquid will be as clear as crystal. Pour off very carefully, leay- ing the residue for kitchen Imrpam. Add one-fourth ounce essence of verbena. Pour a little of it in the water before 1 am sure you will find it de- one-fourth THE SELF-TRIMMED STRAW TOQUE. 2% A RED RIDING 850 In a cool. dry piace, for damp soap | Joses its perfume quicker than hard, com- | pact and moderately dry soap. | I wish that my readers, after experi- | menting with any of the recipes that I give them, would write to me and let me know how successful they have been. In the case of failure, I may be point out where the error wa haps give a timely hint that may | means of redeeming some mixture that | seems hopeles: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ' | GEORGTANA — Blackheads are very | hard to get rid of. Buy a camel's hair | face brush and scrub the face with t4gid | water and pure castile soap every nigW®. | Or, you might use the liquid soap thaty have given the formula for in my tal to-day. Be sure to rinse away all the soap. Then\dry and apply a good cold 1l | | | | cream, rubbing it into the pores until it is all absorbed. The next morning bathe | the face in clear tepid water. Sq\xe&zlng‘ out the blackheads is a great mistake. It | irritates them and increases them in ‘number and size. Take a daily sponge bath, one or two hot baths a week, plenty of exercise, and avoid rich, greasy foods, and I feel sure the blackheads will dis- appear. If they do not, then let me know and I will give you a recipe for a lotion to use in comnection with the scrubbing. Lemon juice is the simplest thing to use on the face for the removal of freckles. Dilute it with rose water, and when 54;&113 out protect the face against wind and sun by wearing a chiffon vell. This is also good for tan. For the wrinkles massage thoroughly each night with a good skin food, such as I gave formula for on wrin- | kles in The Sunday Call of July 10. MONA L.—For excessive perspiration wash the parts affected with boracic acid, diluted in the proportion of one part of the acid to twenty parts of hot water. | en dust with this powder: Sa.llcyllzl acid, three parts; tale, seven parts; starch, ninety parts. OLIVETTE—For the discoloratlon and swellings under the eyes try bathing! them with witch hazel and camphor wa- ter in equal proportions. THELMA—I am always so sorry when any one asks me for something to prevent the white hairs from coming, for, to my mind, there is nothing more lovely than | white hair. It softens the lines of the face, lends dignity to it and altogether gives it a chastened appearance. How- ever, we do not all think alike. When hair begins to turn white it indicates a failure of iron in the system, and a good plan is to take a good ifron tonic pre- scribed by .a physiclan. Do not use any of the so-called ‘“restoratives.” Most of | them are poisonous and dangerous or else | color the scalp and give the head a most | uncieanly appearance. There is a tonic of claret and sulphate of iron which has a slight coloring effect. The proportions are: One gram sulphate of iron to sixty grams genuine claret. Bofl for one min- ute, and when cold bottle and cork. Wash the hair with this twice a week, allowing it to dry onm, This strengthens and invig- orates the hair bulbs and thus brings back the natural tints. If you will apply rose water or a very little bit of cold cream before Fowdeflng you will find the powder will go on more smoothly. EVA—A good white face powder Is made by sifting over and over again one ounce of the finest fice gowdet with three ounges of pure oxide of zinc and adding three drops of ofl of roses. A dry rou is thus vprepared: Carmine, half dram; oll of almonds, one dram; French chalk, two ounces. Mix. If you prefer a liquid mufe. or a grease, write to me again, and I will give you a for- mula. MARGARET—Here Is the formula for a halr tonic. €ologne, eight ounces; tinc- ture of cantharides, one ounce; ofl of Emilish lavender, oil of rosemary, one- half dram each. Apply to the roots of the halr once or twice a day. Tt is golnlvely necessary that the scalp should e kept clean. For freckles of the “all year round kind,” the only sure way of et Ty ‘5"::. word as to the care of soap. Keep getting rid of them Is to wear a mask HOOD HAT. erfumed soap in glass or earthen jars, | made of beautifying paste, until they fade out. A paste is easily made by mixing three ounces of ground barley (or fresh rye meal) with one ounce of honey and the white of an egg. Use at night and wash off in the morning. Wear during the day as much as possible. After this treatment you will have to take great care when golng out to protect the face with a vell or parasol. H. H. H—I have seen in the East a patent contrivance of some sort, which, placed over the mouth at night, forces one to breathe through the nose, and so does aw with the snoring. Whether or not the article can be found here I do not know. I have never known of any snch opera- tion as you mention. Such a one, I should think, would be largely in the nature of an experiment, and I fear could not be undergone without taking grave chances. MME. HYGEIA. ‘Bow 10 Uy KasTERY Ruas 5 and impositions are being prac- ticed. Here are a few pointers as offsets furnished by a professional buyer of rugs from the East. Some dealers will always assure you with passionate earnestness that the -rugs are either Persian or Turkish. You must not believe a word they say, for some Mussuimen have been raised in the be- lief that to get the better of a Christiau is a saving grace. As the size of Persian and Turkish rugs rarely exceed eight ana a half by six and a half feet, about s per cent of all the rugs made are larger but they have been made to order, and only about 1 per cent of the 5 per cent ever came to America. The Oriental worker makes the rugs to fill the use of chairs and they are pilea in heaps in his narrow hut or house. Only the long narrow carpets which we covet for our halls and stairs are in- tended by him to be used under foot. These floor strips are never more tham sixteen feet, and are usually thirteen by three feet. In this country, and in San Franciscu in particular, a great many large rugs aru being sold as Dagastan, Goulistan, etc:, some of them running as high as twelve by twenty-four feet. They are made in large barbaric patterns, with great wealth of color and are very loosely woven. They are genuine Oriental rugs, but not Persian or Turkish. They are made In four prisons of India, where the Britism Government employs the native convicts in the making of these rugs for the Bu- ropean and American markets. As a number of men are employed on one rug the pattern must be given them by the English overseer, as the convicts do not belong to the rug raiing class. Hence the patterns are sucu as a long- headed Englishman would -select. In the Persian and Turkish huts the whole family 1l work on a rug, whose pattern is evol¥ed with the rug. The prison-made rugs are made of in- ferior wool, as the Government buys only the short staple, while the Oriental uses the tongest and finest wool obtainable. The prison rugs are dyed with analine dyes, while in the old Oriental families the secret of the vegetable dyes has been guarded for centuries and handed down from fienera(ion to generation. The British Government has found tals industry profitable and it has grown to such an extent that®they have more orders than they can fill. As a conse- quence they are constantly improving the rugs which, while beautiful and genuine, are not what they are represented to be when sold in this country. The analine dyes fade, which often softens and im- proves the rug, where it does not fade unevenly, as is very often the case. A simple test for analine which any one can apply at a moment's notice 1s to mofsten a white handkerchief and rub the suspected rug vigorously. If any of the color comes off it is analine dye. It must be borne in mind that owing to the difficulty the peasants have in ob- talning some of the vegetable dyes, they will sometimes substitute one color, par- ticularly sapphire, in analine. An ‘abso- lutely infallible test for analine dye Is ts test the rug with a match. Pull out a thread and burn with a match, letting the ash fall on the rug. It will leave a yel- low smudgle. If the thread was dyed with vegetable dyes you can easily rub the smudge off with a handkerchief; if dyed with analine the smudge cannot be rube bed off. As to patterns, the genulne rug may have occasionally European designs. The French haye serit to the Persian families designs to be made up, and these rugs are sometimes offered for salehere. An American had for sale in San Fran- INCE Oriental rugs have become so much sought after by the follow- ers of fashion countless frauds | elsco three of the most beautiful rugs, which he said had been ordered by the French Embassador. The background was blue in one, red in the other and white in the third. Bach had for the center the Fren flag, crossed by the Persian. The rugs were made of camel's hair ané silk, and were valued at $700 for the three. Most of the Eastern rugs are made by Mohammedans, and as the Koran forbids the representation of any llvln% thing, when the pattern contalns the likeness more or less crude of -an animal, usually a horse, sometimes a camel, the ru~ was robably made by a Nestorian Christian n Asia Minor, or in Anatolia, by a Greek Christian family, These Anatolian rugs being made of very long, staple wool, are exceedingly beautiful, and are more artistic in color~ ing and in pattern than in Persia, where 1l'u !(naklng has become an established ndustry, . The Anatollan agrees with Eugene Field, thinking that any color, so long 88 it is red, is the color that suits him besty and the prevalling color of all Anatoliar rugs {8 a rich pigeon blood red. The Christian made rugs often have a cross in the pattern. The Bokara rug, so much prized by col- lectors, has always for a pattern a very conventionalized pomgranite about 1x11% inches,’ being "eafli‘; circular, usually on a rich dark red background. The Tiflis hall carpets used by us as stair carpets have also frequently a con¢ and the pomgranate is much larger—thak but the rug Is not so,closely woven as a Bokara, the colori is totally different and the pomgranite is much larger—that is, about 2% inches in diameter, and is rather square than round. : One of the best weaves of the Persian rugs Is the Sherez, but a word of warn- ing concerning these rugs. At Sherez, a town In Persia, factories have been started ‘where they turn out large numbers of tho rugs, very beautiful, but all colored with the analine dyes, and sure to fade, and to fade unevenly. The genuine old Sherez is usually of a very simpie pattern, consisting of verti- cal or diagonal stripes surrounded by a greater or smaller number of borders. As a rule the greater number of borders in this rug the greater the value.