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Show doormats may often be gleaned from an old dining-room or bedroom carpet. Our sketch clearly shows the way in which the border should be fitted around the carpet. FROM REMNANTS OF CARPET Useful Little Mat for Standard Lamp cr Fern Stand That Is by No Means Expensive. Carpet mats of every kind are still extremely expensive compared with pre-war prices, but some very useful little mats can be made at home with small remnants of stair-carpet or the Mat For Standard Lamp. cood portions cut from an old worn-out worn-out carpet. We give a sketch of a mat suitable for placing under a standard lamp or a fern stand, that was made with a mniill remnant of stair carpet. The border of I be carpet was carefully cut away, mid (he center portion cut into t diamond shape. Then pieces of the -lOi'diT were cut to lit. around it, and the whole thing sewn together and lined at the back with coar-e canvas. Square cr oblong mats can, of course, be made upon the same lines, and sufricient material for several I |