Ends should always be cut slanting or bias; never straight.

All you will require besides the silk scraps, will be a ball of common cord or twine, or save all cord which comes tied around packages, as I do, and use that and two ordinary steel knitting needles.

When making her rug, Aunt Cornelia knitted several strips a couple of inches in width and the length she wished the finished rug to be.

The strips when finished she sewed together with strong linen thread on the wrong side of the rug.
She commenced the rug by knitting two rows of the twine or cord.

(When I was a girl we called this common knitting 'garter stitch.') Then, when commencing to knit third row, slip off first stitch onto your other needle; knit one stitch, then lay one of the tiny scraps of silk across or between the two needles; knit one stitch with the cord.