These, combined with the gray skirt I heard you say had outlived its day of usefulness, will furnish the background of the rug.

The six triangles in the centre of the rug, also lighter stripes at each end of the rug, we will make of that old linen chair-cover and your faded linen skirt, which you said I might use for carpet rags; and, should more material be needed, I have some old, gray woolen underwear in my patch bag, a gray-white, similar to the real Navajo.
The rows of black with which we shall outline the triangles may be made from those old, black, silk-lisle hose you gave me, by cutting them round and round in one continuous strip.

Heavy cloth should be cut in _very_ narrow strips.

Sibylla will do that nicely; her hands are more used to handling large, heavy shears than are yours.

The linen-lawn skirt you may cut in strips about three-fourths of an inch in width, as that material is quite thin.