ROUND TABLE MAT OF 1913

ROUND TABLE MAT OF 1913

Designed by Helen Marvin 

THE table mat here illustrated is crocheted with No 12 German knitting cotton and a coarse steel crochet hook. While thick enough for ordinary purposes the mat may be made doubly useful by being lined with linen or muslin between which and the crochet a layer of fleece (in 1913 asbestos was used) into mat should be slipped for sturdiness. 

For this round table mat, pattern of 1913 is designed  in puffed stitch. If you want to have this German rustic style of WW1 patter table mat, proceed as follows:

Chain four, join in a ring, eleven short double crochet in the ring. Join first stit

ch to last.A short double crochet is made by picking up three loops on the needle as for double crochet, then drawing through all three loops at once.

Second Round 

Chain two, two short double crochet in each stitch of preceding round picked up the double thread. Join the round.  All the stitches of the work are picked up on the double thread and each round is joined.

Third Round 

Chain four, *one short double crochet in each  hole of the first two stitches, chain two, and repeat from *all around. Join to the second stitch of the starting chain. 

 Fourth Round 

Chain four, *one short double crochet in hole next to needle and one short double crochet in each of the  next two stitches. Chain two and repeat from all around two stitches Chain two, and repeat from all* around, two stitches  joining to the second stitch of the starting chain. Here after each round is started with four chain and joined by catching the last stitch to the second stitch of the starting chain.  

Fifth Round 

Work like fourth round, but with four short double crochet in each group.

Sixth Round 

Chain four,* one short double crochet in the hole, and in the next stitch work five double crochet. Slip the loop from the needle, insert the latter in the top of the first double crochet made, draw the loop through, one short double crochet in the next stitch, a puff in the next, one short double crochet in the next. Chain two, and repeat from* all around. 

Seventh Round Work like fourth round putting, one short double crochet in the back of each puff, and one in each short double crochet. There will be six stitches in each group. 

Repeat the last two rounds alternately. On each puff round there will be one puff more in each group than on preceding puff round, and on each short double crochet round two more short double crochet in each group than on preceding short double crochet round. Continue in this way until the mat is nine inches in diameter or any size desired. Have the last round a puff round, and after it work three short double-crochet rounds, then a round of holes, skipping every second stitch, and working two chain instead. Make a final round of two single crochet in each space. and fasten off.

REFERENCES:

Ladies Home Companion 1913